TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - 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.]
JO  - Journal of American history
A1  - Barr, Daniel P.
SP  - 531
EP  - 532
VL  - 102
IS  - 2
N2  - <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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-8723
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav341
ID  - ref1
ER  -