Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keeper...
Hudson, Charles M. / Bishop, Charles A. / Krech, Shepard![Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/352/3526531/CHSBZCOP033526531.jpg)
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...