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Discouraging the Use of a Common Resource: The Crees of Saskatchewan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Ann Harper-Fender
Ann Harper-Fender
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Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325
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Abstract

The Crees of Saskatchewan adjusted their economic life in reaction to their long and interdependent relationship with European fur traders. For the period from the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, this paper examines one aspect of the Crees' economic adjustment to the fur trade, the limiting of access to the land and its resources to conserve the fragile supply of furbearmg animals. Hudson's Bay Company documents and studies by anthropologists provide the basis for this economic study.

Type
Papers Presented at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 163 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1981

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