Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
by Van Kirk, Sylvia

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Sexual encounters between Indian women and the fur traders of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies are generally thought to have been casual and illicit in nature. This illuminating book reveals instead that Indian-White marriages, sanctioned "after the custom of the country", resulted in many warm and enduring family unions. These were profoundly altered by the coming of white women in the 1820's and 1830's.
Among the women are Thanadelthur, the spirited Chipewyan who led an expedition from York Factory in to the Barren Grounds; Isabel Gunn, the Orkney lass who signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company disguised as a boy; Marie-Anne Lajimoniere, the first white woman to make a permanent home in the West, and beautiful Sarah Ballenden, the tragic part-Indian wife of Chief Factor John Ballenden.
Professor Van Kirk's sympathetic analysis has been meticulously researched from the little know journals, letters and wills in Canada and Great Britain.

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ISBN-10:	189623951X
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781896239514
Author:	Van Kirk, Sylvia
Publisher:	Watson & Dwyer Publishing Manitoba
Publication Date:	1999
Pages:	261
Size/Dimensions:	6x9
Binding:	Paperback