Julia Grummitt In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Métis communities emerged across a region of North America ...

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

These communities were formed by Indigenous descendants of the fur trade – the children of European fur traders and Indigenous women – who over generations of endogamy (intermarriage) developed a ...