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The many hands of my relations : French and Indians on the lower Missouri

Title: The many hands of my relations : French and Indians on the lower Missouri / Tanis C. Thorne.
Author: Thorne, Tanis C.
Publication: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [1996], ©1996.

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xiii, 294 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

The Many Hands of My Relations is a study of kinship networks among French Creoles and Central Siouan tribes and the influence of those networks on social, political, and economic development along the lower Missouri River from the late prehistoric period to the removal era in the 1870s.
The book examines economic relations and intermarriages between French fur traders and native people of the Central Siouan tribes and the consequences for intergroup relationships as three imperial powers (France, then Spain, and then the United States) vied for political control and commercial supremacy.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-282) and index.

Contents

1. People of the Pipe: Calumets as a Source of Ethnic Identity -- 2. People of the River: St. Louis and the Fur Trade in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. Too Many Chiefs, Too Many Traders: Redefinition of French and Indian Relations, 1790-1820 -- 4. People in Between: French-Indian Families and Communities, 1820-1860 -- 5. Decline in the Fur Trade on the Lower Missouri River: Intertribal and Interethnic Relations, 1815-1850 -- 6. An Ending and a New Beginning: French and Indian Ethnicity in the Early Reservation Era, 1850-1880.

ISBN

082621083X (alk. paper)

LCCN

96031899

OCLC

35145845
ocm35145845

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Columbia University Libraries