Illustration, Figures, and Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 “To Look for Food Instead of Fur”: Local Economies - Indian Bands and Company Posts

2 “The Only Remedy Is the Employment of Steam”: Reorganizing the Regional System

3 “Dependent on the Company’s Provisions for Subsistence”: The Decline of Kihchiwaskahikanihk (York Factory)

4 “To Be Shut Up on a Small Reserve”: Geographical and Economic Aspects of Indian Treaties

5 “Lands Are Getting Poor in Hunting”: Treaty Adhesions in Northern Manitoba

6 “Terms and Conditions as May Be Deemed Expedient”: Metis Aboriginal Title

7 “Go and Pitch His Camp”: Native Settlement Patterns and Indian Agriculture

8 “Nothing to Make Up for the Great Loss of Winter Food”: Resource Conflicts over Common-Property Fisheries

9 “A Great Future Awaits This Section of Northern Manitoba”: Economic Boom and Native Labour

10 “They Make a Comfortable Living”: Economic Change and Incomes

11 “Wait until Advancing Civilization Has So Interfered with Their Natural Resources”: Surplus Labour, Migrations, and Stagnation

12 “The Fish and Waters Should Be Ours”: The Demise of Native Fisheries - Regulation and Capitalization

13 “Civilizing the Wilderness Will Affect Us”: The Demise of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Re-Emergence of Competition

14 “And Now That the Country Has Gone Mining Crazy”: Industrial Capital, Native People, and the Regional Economy

Conclusion

Appendices

A. Fur Trade Productivity and Prices: Stagnation and Revival

B. Summary of Treaty Terms (Written Version)

C. Some Land Scrip Intricacies Notes Index