An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land: Unfinished Conversations

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In 1670, the ancient native land of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson’s Bay Company as Rupert’s Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed a few of the newcomers and the Algonquian communities―who hosted and tolerated the fur traders―and later, the missionaries, anthropologists, and others who found their way into Indigenous lives and territories. The eighteen essays gathered on this book explore Brown’s investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one every other from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change.

While diverse in their subject matter, the essays have thematic unity in their center of attention at the old HBC territory and its peoples from the 1600s to the present. More than an anthology, the chapters of An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land provide examples of Brown’s exceptional skill within the close study of texts, including oral documents, images, artifacts, and other cultural expressions. The volume as a complete represents the scholarly evolution of one of the vital leading ethnohistorians in Canada and the US.

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