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ISBN:
9780803248380
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Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples' use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples' ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual transition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson's Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s.Technological change and the effects o
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Bows, Guns, and Diverging Views on Indigenous and European Technology; 2. Indigenous Subsistence Patterns of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and Northern Plains; 3. Bows of the Northern Plains and Subarctic; 4. Arrows and Arrow Makers; 5. Aboriginal Peoples and Firearms; 6. Injuries Caused by Arrows and Firearms; 7. Archery and Firearms in Aboriginal Beliefs; 8. Archery and Firearms in Hunting; 9. Archery and Firearms in Combat in the Central Subarctic; 10. Archery and Firearms in Combat in the Northern Plains
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11. Survival and Adaptation of Aboriginal Archery and European FirearmsAppendix: Extended Image Credits; Glossary of Archery Terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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ISBN 9780803254381
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ISBN 9780803248380
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gifts from the Thunder Beings : Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870
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Englisch
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