Title A gathering of rivers : Indians, Métis, and mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2000]
	©2000

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index.
Summary	In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks), Mesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted waves of French and British immigration by diversifying their economies and commercializing lead mining.
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Subject	Winnebago Indians -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
	Winnebago Indians.
	Economic conditions.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Fox Indians -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
	Fox Indians.
	Sauk Indians (Algonquian) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
	Sauk Indians (Algonquian)
	Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Ethnic relations.
	Métis -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
	Métis.
Chronological Term	1700 - 1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld, 1953- Gathering of rivers. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000 0803232101 (DLC) 00027200 (OCoLC)43590434
ISBN	0803202946 (electronic book)
	9780803202948 (electronic book)
	0803232101 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780803232105 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1280374179
	9781280374173