HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pemmican, North West Company, Red River Colony
16 Dec 2012
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North west company: montreal-based, mostly anglo-protestant, traders living in the interior ( wintering partners ) Negatives: intinidation by traders, dependance on trade goods, loss of sense of community, decline in women"s status. Blackfoot: expanded territory, self-sufficiency, but, increasing individualism, violence, decline in women"s status because of too many women (second, third wives, increasing individualism. The metis: mixed white and native heritages, shared common sense of identity, cultures drew from native, european, canadian traditions, saw themselves as culturally distant, viewed by white and native societies as culturally distant, mixed heritage and sense of identity. Metis men in the fur trade: english metis, labourers at hbc posts, french metis, in own communities, pemmican to nwc traders, guides for nwc. Red river settlement: 1812, lord selkirk, near winnipeg, intended as agricultural colony, supply food to traders, initially unsuccessful. Mounting tensions: nwc felt hbc trying cut off trade with montreal, metis, felt threatened by, settlers, gov.
