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  • Print publication year: 1996
  • Online publication date: March 2008

13 - The Northern Interior, 1600 to modern times

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The Northern Interior is the traditional homeland of Native peoples who spoke many dialects of two major linguistic families: Athapaskan speakers and Algonquian speakers. The groups were alike in that they were hunter-fisher-gatherers who lived beside lakes and rivers for most of the year. The establishment of the land-based fur trade with beaver as the dominant staple was a bonanza for the Indians. Beaver cloaks were their most important article of winter dress. Securing supplies of metal hatchets, knives, and projectile points for military purposes became a major concern of all groups living between Tadoussac and the Huron country, and the differential rates of acquisition shifted the balances of power among the various groups. The intense competition for the Indian's furs, particularly between 1795 and 1821, strongly affected most Native groups in the Northern Interior. Many of them suffered as a result.

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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
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  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521573931
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