Keepers of the game : Indian-animal relationships and the fur trade / Calvin Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Calvin, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Hunting--Canada.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--Hunting--Canada.

Indigenous people of North America--Hunting--Canada.

Indians of North America--Canada--Religion.

Micmac Indians--Hunting.

Micmac Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--Hunting.

Ojibwa Indians.

Fur trade--Canada.

Fur trade.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Hunting--Canada.

Indigenous people of North America--Hunting--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 226 p. ) maps ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Maps

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Paradox

PART ONE: An Ecological Interpretation of European Contact with the Micmac

1. The Protohistoric Indian-Land Relationship

2. Early Contact and the Deterioration of the Environmental Ethos

PART TWO: The Ojibwa Cosmos and the Early Fur Trade

3. Pimadaziwin: The Good Life

4. Contact and Nature's Conspiracy

PART THREE: The Paradox Resolved

5. The Hunter's Relationship with the Hunted

6. Conclusion

Epilogue: The Indian and the Ecology Movement

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520342217

0520342216

OCLC:

1224279055