Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade Paperback - 1982
by Calvin Martin; Introduction by Nancy Lurie
First line
AS THE DRIVE for furs expanded and gathered momentum in seventeenth-century Eastern Canada, complaints of beaver extermination became correspondingly more frequent and alarming.
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"A brilliant book which deals with the complex relationship between American Indians and animals, as it changed through time. Martin argues that an aboriginal ecosystem . . . was destroyed by 'European disease, Christianity and the fur trade, ' and the symbiosis which had existed between hunters and their game turned into an adversary relationship."--New Republic "The nature of the relationship between Indian and animal, he argues, was essentially a contract of mutual obligation and courtesy. When European epidemic disease began to ravage them, destroying perhaps 90 percent of the native population, Indians took it to be a 'conspiracy' by game animals against them. When their own medicine men were unable to cure these diseases, the stage was set for a 'war of retaliation'--the sacred agreement with the Keepers of the Game having been broken. . . . [T]here is a fine and fair mind at work here."--Harper's "The clarity, directness and originality of this small book should. . . . earn it many readers who will wonder at the tangled web of the living world and the variousness of the human mind."--Scientific American
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- Title Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade
- Author Calvin Martin; Introduction by Nancy Lurie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Number Line 4567
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 1982-04-26
- ISBN 9780520046375 / 0520046374
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (20.90 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 7778381
- Dewey Decimal Code 971.004
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