num_pages: 214
description: Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in Keepers of the Game , which dismisses the lure of European goods--the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians--and instead attributes the Indians' willingness to overkill wildlife to the epidemics that decimated their ranks, that not only shattered their religious bonds with game but also unleashed a furious revenge against the animals.
language: English
title: Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game
titlecomplete: Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game
genres: History
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr