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Post by mdenney on Feb 17, 2007 19:50:56 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Feb 18, 2007 17:02:43 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Feb 18, 2007 21:07:28 GMT -5
Metis Women in the Fur Trade at Mackinac Elizabeth Mitchell Agatha Biddle Therese Marcotte LaSaliere Schindler Madeleine Marcotte LaFramboise Links to additional Resources for Women in the Fur Trade Women in the Fur Trade Metis Nation in Canada Fur Trade Society - Alberta Women in Fur Trade Society link below- www.rootsweb.com/~mimacki2/women_in_the_fur_trade.html |
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Post by mdenney on Feb 21, 2007 22:39:09 GMT -5
1834 Fur Trade document This is a copy from a ledger sheet from the Sibley Papers. I believe it shows the debts of the employees of a fur-trading outfit in 1834. It is signed by one of the top men in the trading business, Hercules Dousman, and appears to be in his handwriting. I think this document was prepared to transfer the debts owed to the "Western Outfit" to the newly created "Sioux Outfit." At the same time Henry Sibley came to Minnesota in 1834, there was a major realignment in the ownership of the local fur trade, with Dousman and Sibley being two of the principal new owners. This document may have been used to transfer the employee's debts into the new company. It is very hard to read, but my ancestor's name, Francois Trudell, looks to be the 3rd name down. It looks like he owed $20.12. i83.photobucket.com/albums/j299/mdenney100/x1/Ledger-Sibley-Papers-debts-employees-of-a-furTrade/p1.jpg |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 2, 2007 0:57:30 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 10, 2007 21:48:13 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 13, 2007 17:44:20 GMT -5
Pierre Dorion Pierre Dorion, a talented trapper and interpreter, was engaged by the captains as an interpreter in July 1804 just prior to an August confrontation with the Teton Sioux Indians. Considered “a shrewd, hard-twisted, semiliterate half-breed,” Dorion had lived intermittently with the Yankton Sioux Indians for 20 years prior to the arrival of the explorers. In dire need of a Sioux interpreter, the Americans paid Dorion not only an interpreter’s salary, but also purchased from him 300 pounds of buffalo grease, “which we use to repel insects.” The captains called the Sioux to counsel at Calumet Bluff on August 30, 1804. Dorion, whose son resided with the Yankton Sioux, was integral in these political communications. He translated Meriwether Lewis’ “children” speech and helped with the “making chiefs” and other rituals. Dorion also helped the explorers document ethnographic data about the Yankton Sioux culture, and urged the Yankton to make peace their neighboring tribes. In September 1804, when the Corps was negotiating passage into the upper Missouri with the Bois Brule Teton Sioux, Dorion’s skills would again prove valuable. In order to help ease relations between the warring Omaha and Bois Brule Indian tribes, Clark persuaded the Bois Brule to release 48 prisoners of war by turning them over to Dorion, who resided downstream with the Yanktons. The Bois Brule agreed, and Dorion helped the captives find their relatives. As the Corps progressed up the Missouri River, Dorion was commissioned to collect and transport selected chiefs from the Yankton Sioux, Omaha, Oto, and Missouri tribes downstream to visit St. Louis and Washington. These visits were critical in helping President Thomas Jefferson cement and formalize relations with the tribes. link below- www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/pdori.html |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 29, 2007 23:48:15 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 29, 2007 23:53:31 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 29, 2007 23:55:26 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 29, 2007 23:59:06 GMT -5
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Post by hermin1 on Feb 13, 2009 11:36:38 GMT -5
I found a great book that gives first hand information about the trading posts, and the fur traders in the Dakota Territory.
type the title into your search browser: Forty Years A Fur Trader
it was written by by Charles Larpentier.
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Post by mdenney on Feb 15, 2009 14:45:59 GMT -5
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