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• Title:French Canadians, furs, and indigenous women in the making of the Pacific Northwest / Jean Barman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Barman, Jean, 1939- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, [2014]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: B B37 F74 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Women--British Columbia--History.
  Indigenous Peoples--Fur trade--British Columbia--History.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: French-Canadians--British Columbia--History.
  Fur trade--Northwest, Pacific--History.
  French-Canadians--Northwest, Pacific--History.
  Indigenous women--Northwest, Pacific--History.
  Northwest, Pacific--History.
  
• Description:xiv, 458 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"In French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women, Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of French Canadians involved in the fur economy, the Indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants." - back cover
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-430), appendix and index.
  
• ISBN:9780774828048 (bound)
  0774828048 (bound)
  
• Contents:Part I: French Canadians and the fur economy
  1. To be French Canadian
  2. Facilitating the overland crossing
  3. Driving the fur economy
  4. Deciding whether to go or to stay
  Part 2: French Canadians, Indigenous women, and family life in the fur economy
  5. Taking Indigenous women seriously
  6. Innovating family life
  7. Initiating permanent settlement
  8. Saving British Columbia for Canada
  Part 3: Beyond the fur economy
  9. Negotiating changing times
  10. Enabling sons and daughters
  11. To be French Canadian and Indigenous - 12. Reclaiming the past
  Appendix: French Canadians arrived with the fur economy who figured in the text.