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Pemmican Empire - Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882 (Paperback)
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Pemmican Empire - Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882 (Paperback)
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 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, 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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