Gifts from the thunder beings : indigenous archery and European firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870

by Roland Bohr

Paper Book, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

E98 .A65B64 2014

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

Description

Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples' use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples' ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual transition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson's Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s.Technological ch

Language

ISBN

0803248385 / 9780803248380

Barcode

34662001003661
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