@article{ref1,
title="Book review: Gifts from the thunder beings: indigenous archery and European firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670-1870 [Roland Bohr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xviii, 468 pp.]",
journal="Journal of American history",
year="2015",
author="Barr, Daniel P.",
volume="102",
number="2",
pages="531-532",
abstract="<p>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 … </p> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-8723",
doi="10.1093/jahist/jav341",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav341"
}