Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-221) and index.
Contents
Fish to furs: the fur trade in Illinois country -- Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: conversion, gender, and power -- Marie Madeleine Réaume L'archêveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi -- British governance in the western Great Lakes -- Agriculture, warfare, and neutrality -- Being Indian and becoming Catholic -- Hiding in plain view: persistence on the Indiana frontier -- Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's mythical frontier.