ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: North American Fur Trade, Indigenous Peoples Of The Eastern Woodlands, Potawatomi

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Worthy Ken

Document Summary

9. 1 the north american fur trade: mercantilism in the fur trade, etc, territorial expansion, transfer of energy from one region to another (europe or eastern cities) Indian tribes, the fur trade & the emerging global economy. Articulating modes of production: (cid:858)kin-ordered(cid:859) vs. su(cid:271)sisten(cid:272)e agri(cid:272)ulture/hunter-gatherer: mercantilism: state-sponsored extraction & market exchange, division of labor, technology. Tribes: coastal eastern woodland tribes: coastal abenaki, powerful nations & middle-men: huron/iroquois, great lakes tribes: fox, sauk, potawatami, ottowa. New roles in the economy: labor (raw material suppliers)/middle-men/warriors (holders of territory)/consumers.