Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade i

Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through th

A history of the North American fur trade, based on primary sources. The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fiftee

Voyageur is the French word for "traveler," but in the Great Lakes region during the seventeenth century it described those men who made their living trading fu

The essays in section 1 consider ethnography's influence on how Europeans represent colonized peoples. Section 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizin