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Brian Gettler Université du Québec à Montréal My research focuses on First Nations’ economic and political history. My dissertation, underway at the Université du Québec à Montréal (expected spring 2011), analyzes the evolution of money-use in three Amerindian communities in Quebec and Ontario (Wendake and Mashteuiatsh, Quebec and Moose Factory, Ontario) between 1830 and 1950. During this period, money’s free or fettered circulation affected, among other things, access to consumer goods, the profitability of resource-based economic activities, participation in labor markets, individual and community-based entrepreneurial opportunities, and the degree to which communities were able to exercise local political control. My research demonstrates that in spite of British and Canadian attempts to circumscribe First Nations’ ability to control their financial affairs, Amerindians participated in the market as workers, entrepreneurs, and consumers, in the process creating social structures that both differed substantially from “traditional” Indigenous norms and challenged the gender and class lines of modern Canada. |
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List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-AmIndian |
Reviews: | International Politics in Early-Nineteenth-Century Native Alaska |
Interests: | Canadian History / Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies Labor History / Studies Native American History / Studies Political History / Studies |