The last stage of the fur trade of North America's northwestern plains, in which native people played a decisive role, is known as the whiskey trade due to the overwhelming use of alcohol as a commodity of exchange. In the 1860s and 1870s, hundreds of trading posts were established throughout northern Montana and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan by independent American traders seeking buffalo robes processed by the women of local native groups. This study combines evidence from history, archaeology, and native oral traditions to present new insight on this most important, yet rarely studied, episode in the North American fur trade.
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Archaeology,documents and oral history are combined,
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The whiskey trade was a significant, albeit largely illegal commercial enterprise focused on Montana and southern Alberta. It had a major impact on the lives of the Plains Indians, particularly members of the Blackfoot confederacy. Although Dr. Kennedy could have focused on the archaeological studies she has made on this enterprise, she choses instead to try to build a more inclusive picture of industry by bringing in documents and oral history. The history of selling alcohol always brings out interesting characters and questionable ethics. You should read this if you think rum-running began with the prohibition or you are interested in the early commercial and First Nation's history of the west.
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