A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
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A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
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Focusing on personal stories and detailed community histories, Murphy charts the changed economic forces at work in the region, connecting them to shifts in gender roles and intercultural relationships. She argues that French, British, and Native peoples forged cooperative social and economic bonds expressed partly by mixed-race marriages and the emergence of multiethnic communities at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. Significantly, Native peoples in the western Great Lakes region were able to adapt successfully to the new frontier market economy until their lead mining operations became the envy of outsiders in the 1820s.
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