Carl Gawboy
A nationally recognized artist and member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Carl Gawboy taught college courses on this extraordinary historical period for 30 years. He has distilled his knowledge into more than 800 pen and ink drawings, connecting historical records and art, oral traditions, Western and Indigenous scholarship, family history and contemporary artisans who continue to practice the crafts which sustained the Fur Trade
Books (1)
Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe's Graphic History
$42.16
Format:
Hardcover
ISBN / Barcode: 9781962910002
Synopsis:
Synopsis:
We clothed the royals. We fed the worker. We guided the traveler. We abetted the soldier. We are not afraid to love. So begins Carl Gawboy's groundbreaking graphic history of the Fur Trade Era. From 1650 to 1850, the Ojibwe Nation was the epicenter of the first global trading network. Trade goods from Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America flowed into the Great Lakes region, floating along Ojibwe waterways in birchbark canoes paddled by mixed-race Voyageurs. Gawboy offers a fresh perspective on the fur trade era, placing Ojibwe technology, kinship systems, cultural paradigms, and women at the heart of this remarkable era, where they have always belonged.
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202 pages | 8.25" x 11.00" | Hardcover
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