Iroquois in the west /

Iroquois in the west /

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Author / Creator:	Barman, Jean, 1939-
Imprint:	Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Description:	xv, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ; 93 McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 93.
Subject:	Iroquois Indians -- Canada, Western -- History. Iroquois Indians -- West (U.S.) -- History. Iroquois Indians. Canada, Western. United States, West. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11800223

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ISBN:	0773556257 9780773556256 9780773556249 0773556249
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 others made their lives across the west so far as possible on their own terms. Their stories speak to Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency. The book tracks four Iroquois clusters or bands across time, place, and generations. Set down among Montana Flatheads, Iroquois responded to their host's desire for the Catholicism they brought with them from Quebec by four expeditions to St. Louis in search of a Jesuit missionary, who no sooner arrived than lost interest, leaving Iroquois once again to mentor their hosts. The fur trade's economic imbalance impelled a second group, whose words quite remarkably survive as they were spoken, to overturn the status quo to the advantage of employees, they themselves engaging the American west. A third group opted for the Pacific Northwest fur trade, those doing so on the American side of a border put in place in 1846 discovering their long service mattered for naught when they sought to settle among their White counterparts, those in British territory faring somewhat better. Repeatedly lauded in travelers' accounts, a fourth cluster was displaced on their homeland becoming Jasper National Park, again on their new locale an Alberta boom town, yet still today self-identify as Iroquois."--
Other form:	Barman, Jean, 1939- Iroquois in the West./. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. McGill-Queen's Native and northern series McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ;

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Summary:	Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois - principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke - left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed ever further west by the rapidly expanding fur trade. Recounting stories of Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency, Iroquois in the West tracks four clusters of travellers across time, place, and generations: a band that settled in Montana, another ranging across the American West, others opting for British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, and a group in Alberta who were evicted when their longtime home became Jasper National Park. Reclaiming slivers of Iroquois knowledge, anecdotes, and memories from the shadows of the past, Jean Barman draws on sources that range from descendants' recollections to fur-trade and government records to travellers' accounts. What becomes clear is that, no matter the places or the circumstances, the Iroquois never abandoned their senses of self. Opening up new ways of thinking about Indigenous peoples through time, Iroquois in the West shares the fascinating adventures of a people who have waited over two hundred years to be heard.
Physical Description:	xv, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0773556257 9780773556256 9780773556249 0773556249