Iroquois in the West / Jean Barman.
"Iroquois principally from Caughnawaga, today's Kahnawà:ke, were recruited now two centuries ago on a par with Whites to man the large canoes taking trade goods west from nearby Montreal, coming back with animal pelts. While some soon returned home, others stuck with the fur trade, yet oth...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;
93. |
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Table of Contents:
- Self-determining their lives
- Heading West, maybe forever, maybe not
- Bringing Catholicism to the Flatheads
- Challenging a fur monopoly
- Committing to the Pacific Northwest
- Disappearing into a changing Pacific Northwest
- Becoming Jasper Iroquois
- Persisting in Jasper's shadow.