Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes

by Susan Sleeper-Smith

Book Overview

A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the colonial period, the Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples. In this well-researched study, Susan Sleeper-Smith focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions -- the role played by Indian women who married French traders.Drawing on a broad range of primary and secondary sources, she shows how these women used...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558493107
• ISBN13: 9781558493100
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher