Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Campus) [Paperback]

Calvin Martin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (April 26, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520046374
• ISBN-13: 978-0520046375
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A different view of Native-European contact, June 22, 2001

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rampant reader "dxystar" (Newton, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Campus) (Paperback)

Scholarly works are not supposed to entertain but Martin's interesting ideas about the cultural confrontation between the First People and the first Europeans makes for fascinating reading. He challenges several accepted views about Native population decline resulting from disease and warfare which are sure to spark disagreement; yet his logic is difficult to refute and the perspectives he offers provide new directions for research. Martin manages to avoid casting anyone into the roles of oppressor and victim by presenting the sequence of events as the result of rational decisions by both cultural groups. While anthropologists and sociologists will certainly find "Keepers" of interest, anyone who teaches cultural diversity or provides diversity training will also benefit from this work. General readers will enjoy asking themselves if their ancestors could have been involved in the events Martin describes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story!, March 5, 2005

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L. Francis Pinn "Little Eagle" (Napavine, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Campus) (Paperback)

Martin has done a remarkable job of telling a very difficult story of the inter-relationships between the first people of Canada, the new world order people of European ancestry and the animals. I am Mi'maq and reading the history took be back to a time and an appreciation of what was a part of life. My hats off to Martin for telling a story that needed to be told!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for many reasons, December 3, 2004

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D. Hess "dhessdc" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Campus) (Paperback)

This book is a great read for many reasons. One that may not get mentioned, but strikes me as important, is the demonstration of how social rules and the environment relate to economic markets. In short: the relationship of the native North American tribes to the fur markets was conditioned by their culture which went through a sudden, tragic, transformation.