Citation

Barr DP. J. Am. Hist. 2015; 102(2): 531-532.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Organization of American Historians)

DOI

10.1093/jahist/jav341

PMID

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Abstract

Historians have long debated the impact of European technology, firearms in particular, on native peoples in North America. Roland Bohr's Gifts from the Thunder Beings is a promising new entry into this field. The heart of the book is a comparative analysis of “Indigenous and European distance weapons in big game hunting and combat from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson's Bay Company territory” over roughly a century from the late eighteenth century to the 1870s (p. xi). The primary subjects of the book are the Omushkego (Swampy) Cree, a subarctic native people, and the Blackfoot peoples of the northern …

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