Morning Coffee Episode 2: Gift Giving and Trading
Channel: Museum of the Great Plains
Date: 15/05/2020

In today's episode of Morning Coffee, Holland Coffee discusses the importance of gift giving in Plains Indian culture and the process of establishing trade.

Morning Coffee is a video series taking place at a reconstruction of the Red River Trading Post. Holland Coffee was one of two owners of Coffee's Station, a fur trading company that traded out of the post. Every morning, Holland puts on a pot of coffee and talks about life at the trading post during the 1800s. Topics covered in conversation relate to the history of the area and the culture of both Frontier colonists and the local Native American tribes.

Morning Coffee is shot on location at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma.

0:00 Intro
0:51 Greetings
1:11 Question
1:20 Gift giving, the tribes, and the cost of doing business
5:04 Trading for furs
7:16 Outro