Great Lakes Creoles by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy - 9781107052864

Great Lakes CreolesA French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 17501860\nAuthor(s): Lucy Eldersveld Murphy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107052864, 978-1107052864\nSynopsis\nA case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and responded to the colonialism of United States expansion. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy examines Indian history with attention to the pluralistic nature of American communities and the ways that power, gender, race, and ethnicity were contested and negotiated in them. She explores the role of women as mediators shaping key social, economic, and political systems, as well as the creation of civil political institutions and the ways that men of many backgrounds participated .