Resources

Selected further reading

Historical sources

  • Beardy, Flora and Robert Coutts 1996. Voices from Hudson Bay: Cree Stories from York Factory.  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
  • Beattie, Judith Hudson and Helen Buss 2003. Undelivered Letters to HBC Men on the North West Coast of America 1830-57. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
  • Bird, Louis 2005. Telling Our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press.
  • Bird, Louis, Susan E. Gray (editor) 2007. The Spirit Lives in the Mind: Omushkego Stories, Lives, and Dreams. McGill-Queen's University Press.
  • Brown, Jennifer S.H. 1980. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
  • Bumsted, J. M. 1999. Fur Trade Wars: The Founding of Western Canada, Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications.
  • Burley, Edith 1997. Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, discipline and conflict in the HBC, 1770-1879. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Foster, John E. 1987. ‘The Homeguard Cree and the HBC: the first hundred years’. In Bruce A. Cox (ed.) Native Peoples, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Métis. Ottawa: Carleton University Press.
  • Francis, Daniel and Toby Morantz 1983.  Partners in Furs: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay 1600-1870. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
  • Huck, Barbara. 1997. Exploring the Fur Trade Routes of North America. Winnipeg: Heartland Publications.
  • Jackson, John C. 1995. Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Métis of the Pacific Northwest. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company.
  • Lytwyn, Victor P. 2002. Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land.  Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
  • Newman, Peter C., 2004 Company of Adventurers, Toronto: Penguin.
  • Peterson, Jacqueline and Jennifer S. H. Brown (eds). The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America. University of Manitoba Press
  • Preston, Richard J. 2002 Cree Narrative: expressing the personal meanings of events. 2nd edn. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press
  • Ray, Arthur J. 1990. The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Ray, Arthur J. 1998. Indians in the Fur Trade.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Ray, Arthur J. and Donald Freeman 1978. ‘Give us good measure’: an economic analysis of relations between the Indians and the Hudson’s Bay Company before 1763. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Rich, Edwin E. 1967. The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
  • Robertson, Colin, E.E. Rich (editor), 1939 Colin Robertson's Correspondence Book, September 1817 to September 1822. London: Hudson's Bay Record Society.
  • Van Kirk, Sylvia 1980. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870. Winnipeg: Watson and Dwyer.

Material culture sources

  • Andrews, Thomas D. 2006. Dè T’a Hoti Ts’eeda: We Live Securely By the Land.  Yellowknife: Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre.
  • Craw-Eismont, Beverly J. 1996. ‘The Influence of European Fur Trade Goods on Native American Material Culture (Clothing)’. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of St. Andrews.
  • Hail, Barbara A. and Kate C. Duncan 1989. Out of the North: the Sub-Arctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.  Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
  • Gilman, Carolyn 1982.  Where Two Worlds Meet: the Great Lakes Fur Trade.  St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press.
  • Idiens, Dale 1987. ‘Northwest Coast Artifacts in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery.  The Colin Robertson Collection’. American Indian Art Magazine 13: 46-53.
  • Idiens, Dale 1990. ‘Chipewyan Artefacts Collected by Robert Campbell and Others in the National Museums of Scotland’. In Patricia A. McCormack and R. Geoffrey Ironside (eds) Proceedings of the Fort Chipewyan and Fort Vermillion Bicentennial Conference.  Edmonton: Boreal Institute for Northern Studies.
  • Kerr, Robert 1953. ‘For the Royal Scottish Museum’. The Beaver, June Outfit 284: 32-35.
  • Leece, Robert Douglas 1999. ‘Coast Salish Mountain Goat Horn Bracelets: Evidence of Change and Continuity in Coast Salish Art Production and Use during the Early Contact Period on the Northwest Coast of America.’ Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Victoria.
  • Oberholtzer, Cath 1991. ‘Beaded hoods of the James Bay Cree: origins and developments’.  In William Cowan (ed.) Papers of the 25th Algonquian Conference. Ottawa: Carleton University.
  • Oberholtzer, Cath 1991. ‘Embedded Symbolism: The James Bay Beaded Hoods’. In Northeast Indian Quarterly 8(2): 18-27.
  • Oberholtzer, Cath 1994. ‘Cree Leggings as a Form of Communication’.  In William Cowan (ed.) Papers of the 22nd Algonquian Conference. Ottawa: Carleton University.
  • Oberholtzer, Cath 2006. ‘Thistles in the North: the direct and indirect Scottish influence on James Bay Cree material culture’. In Peter E. Rider and Heather McNab (eds) A Kingdom of the Mind: How the Scots Helped Make Canada.  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
  • Peers, Laura 1999. ‘‘Many tender ties’: the shifting contexts and meanings of the S BLACK bag.’ World Archaeology 31 (2): 288-302.
  • Racette, Sherry Farrell 2005.  ‘Sewing for a living: the commodification of Métis women’s artistic production’. In Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (eds) Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past.  Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
  • Thompson, Judy 1983. ‘Turn of the century Métis decorative art from the Frederick Bell collection’. American Indian Art Magazine. 8 (4): 36-45.
  • Wright, Robin K. 1979. ‘Haida Argillite Ship Pipes’. American Indian Art Magazine. 5 (1): 40-47.