The many hands of my relations
Subtitle: French and Indians on the lower Missouri
By: Tanis C. Thorne.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Missouri River Valley -- History.; Fur trade -- Missouri River Valley -- History.; French -- Missouri River Valley -- History.; Missouri River Valley -- History.
Description: The Many Hands of My Relations is a study of kinship networks among French Creoles and Central Siouan tribes and the influence of those networks on social, political, and economic development along the lower Missouri River from the late prehistoric period to the removal era in the 1870s.

The book examines economic relations and intermarriages between French fur traders and native people of the Central Siouan tribes and the consequences for intergroup relationships as three imperial powers (France, then Spain, and then the United States) vied for political control and commercial supremacy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-282) and index.