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Article: Fur Trade and Trapping
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FUR TRADE AND TRAPPING
FUR TRADE AND TRAPPING.
The North American fur trade from the sixteenth century to the late nineteenth century involved half a dozen European nations and numerous American Indian nations. European fashion drove this global economic system and resulted in cross-cultural interchanges among Europeans and Indians. Mutually beneficial liaisons created the children of the fur trade or M
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tis, who were bridges between Indian and white worlds. The trade superimposed itself upon and was incorporated into Native trading networks. It helped forge alliances between nations, sometim
es divided tribes, and occasionally led to dependency or warfare. The harvesting of ...
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