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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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One of the many islands of the Peace River, heavily wooded with spruce which the Dominion Government does not allow cut. The river was liquid mud carrying driftwood and logs Edmonton and from there by York boats and carts to the Peace. Regardless of the route and means of transportation, the trading customs re- mained unchanged. Each fall the trad- ing post supplied the Indians with powder, shot and balls, traps, tea and tobacco. These were usually given on credit, or as they still say in the North, "in debt." When winter set in, the
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Hudson's Bay steamer making a landing at Fort St. John. It carries settlers' freight as well as provisions for the various posts and brings back furs 254 Indians went out to their trapping grounds. The man of the family es- tablished a line of traps and snares fifteen or twenty miles long and went back and forth over this line throughout the winter. When he found a beaver house he chiseled through it, having first made an enclosure so the beaver could not escape. The skins obtained in this way were brought to the trading post in the spring. On arrival, the Indian received a present of tea and tobacco and in later years, flour. When he be- gan trading, his "debt" was P-s first covered, then he bought provisions, calicoes, blan- ■> kets, and whatever his heart desired. All trading was done on a basis of "made beaver," a mere term used in trade and indicating at the present time on the Peace River an arbitrary value of thirty-three and a third cents. During the summer it was easy to live on the rabbits caught in snares by the women. One

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