Many Tender Ties: Women in fur-trade society in western Canada, 1670-1870

Publisher: Watson & Dwyer Publishers
Product Code: YB01636
ISBN: 0920486088
Author: Sylvia Van Kirk
Condition: Used Very Good

Price: $39.99

Book in excellent condition; cover shows minor shelf wear. 1st Edition

Sexual encounters between Indian women and the fur traders of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies are generally thought to have been casual and illicit in nature. This illuminating book reveals instead that Indian-white marriages, sanctioned 'after the custom of the country,' resulted in many warm and enduring family unions. These were profoundly altered by the coming of the white women in the 1820s and 1830s.
Binding
Paperback  
Edition
1980 1st Edition
Condition
Used Very Good
Language
English