Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade

by Calvin Martin, Nancy Lurie (Introduction)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520046375
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/26/1982
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Calvin Luther Martin, formerly a professor of history at Rutgers University, now lives and writes in the Adirondacks. 

Table of Contents

Foreward, by Nancy Oestreich Lure
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Paradox

Part One: An Ecological Interpreation 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 Cosmo 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