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Pemmican Empire - Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882 (Hardcover)
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Pemmican Empire - Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Environment and History
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In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food
figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and
Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison
meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their
commercial expansion across the continent. Pemmican Empire traces
the history of the unsustainable food-market hunt on the plains,
which, once established, created distinctive trade relations
between the newcomers and the native peoples. It also resulted in
the near annihilation of the Canadian bison herds north of the
Missouri River. Drawing on fur company records and a broad range of
Native American history accounts, George Colpitts offers new
perspectives on the market economy of the western prairie that was
established during this time, one that created asymmetric power
among traders and informed the bioregional history of the West
where the North American bison became a food commodity hunted to
nearly the last animal.
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