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Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Vibert (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1997

As the earliest "ethnographic" accounts of the Native peoples of northern North America, fur-trade records have long been mined for data by legal researchers, historians, and anthropologists. Traders' Tales provides the first sustained critical analysis of these fascinating historical documents. Drawing on the latest techniques in ethnohistory and cultural and literary theory, Elizabeth Vibert unpacks the assumptions behind traders' views - assumptions shaped by culture, gender, social class, and race. At the same time the author explores the responses of the Native Americans of the Plateau region to the pressures and changes wrought by this early colonial incursion into latter-day Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia. The cultural perceptions of these white men in Indian country were open to inventive refashioning, and Native peoples played a central role in the encounter and in the way it was portrayed. Traders' Tales is both an analysis of fur-trader writings as a form of colonial discourse and a meticulous historical narrative providing significant new insights into early Native-white relations in a little-studied region of the West. A broadly comparative perspective and finely tuned critical skills enable Vibert to shed new light on the nature of colonial cultural relations, and to illuminate the ways in which racism and ethnocentrism are constructed historically.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Vibert is associate professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and coeditor of Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (April 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806129328
ISBN-13: 978-0806129327
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,612,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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trader discourse, unhallowed wilderness, salmon tribes, prophet dance, fur hunters, buffalo culture, many tender ties, post journal, chief traders, trader accounts, indigenous hunters, dried salmon, trapping furs, fur trade, rude state, fishing peoples, bride service, buffalo plains, new cultural history, prophetic movements, buffalo hunting

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Salish Flathead, Native American, Fort Nez, Columbia Interior, David Thompson, Walla Walla, Hudson's Bay Company, Governor Simpson, Snake Country, North West Company, Thompson River, Alexander Ross, North America, John Work, Samuel Black, Upper Kutenai, Kettle Falls, Fort Colville, Spokane House, North Westers, Ross Cox, Columbia River, Fort Okanogan, George Simpson, New Caledonia

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