Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Native Americans of the Northeast)
This is groundbreaking work -- a major contribution to the history of both Native Americans and women in this region. The book will become required reading for any course that focuses on the role of mixed bloods or Native Americans in the western Great Lakes and Mississippi.(R. David Edmunds, coauthor of The Fox Wars:The Mesquakie Challenge to New France)This volume dramatically revises standard assumptions about fur trade society. Sleeper-Smith offers a compelling reinterpretation of native women and the fur trade that will no doubt have a major impact on how we view this aspect of American history in the future.(Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut)