Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West Hyde Anne F.
Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West Hyde Anne F. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. Beginning in the seventeenth century,…
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Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West Hyde Anne F.
Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. Beginning in the seventeenth century, Native peoples--Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and others--formed new families with young French, English, Canadian, and American fur traders who spent months in smoky winter lodges or at boisterous summer rendezvous. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create protective circles of kin.
Their family names are often imprinted on the landscape, but their voices have long been muted in our histories. Anne F. These families built cosmopolitan trade centers from Michilimackinac on the Great Lakes to Bellevue on the Missouri River, Bent's Fort in the southern Plains, and Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest. Hyde's pathbreaking history restores them in full.Vividly combining the
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