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Rainy Lake House

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by Theodore Catton

Fleming, R. Harvey, 156

  Forks, 122, 133, 218

  Fort Alexander, 205

  Fort Alexandria, 88

  Fort Belle Fontaine, 46, 50, 165

  Fort Chipewyan, 118

  Fort Crawford, 47, 348

  Fort Daer, 226, 235

  Fort Dearborn, 40

  Fort Douglas: construction of, 122

  Hudson’s Bay Company move to, 203, 205

  McLeod and, 133

  rebuilding of, 131

  Red River colonists in, 126, 127

  surrender of, 236–37. See also Fort Garry

  Fort Garry, 205, 286

  Fort Gibraltar, 122, 131, 132, 218

  Fort Mackinac, 28, 215, 216, 348

  Fort Mandan, 209

  Fort Smith, 56, 59

  Fort Snelling, 199

  Fort Vancouver, 329, 334

  Fort Vermilion, 108

  Fort Wayne, 40, 196–97

  Fort William: as administrative center, 34

  fur stores at, 138

  McLoughlin at, 30, 101–5, 109

  summer rendezvous at, 34, 102, 107, 124, 129–31, 134, 148

  surrender of, 135–38

  Franklin, Benjamin, 17

  Fraser, Alexander, 31–32, 33

  Fraser, Malcolm, 31

  Fraser, Simon, 32–34, 332

  French Canadians: in Fort Wayne, 196–97, 198

  in fur trade, 118, 119, 220, 263, 279

  on Mackinac island, 321–22

  in Willamette valley, 333

  frostbite, 85–86

  fur trade: Britain and, 40–41, 113, 118–19, 246, 273

  competition in, 112–15, 120, 273–76

  credit system of, 114–15

  decline of, 112–15, 198

  dynamics of, 5

  experiences in, 8

  as extension of statecraft, 246

  factory system in, 42, 43, 47, 194–95

  functional context for, 5–6

  Indian-European relations in, 6–7

  Indian participation in, 6, 81–82

  Jefferson and, 182

  licensing system in, 42–43

  Long and, 9, 315–16

  McLoughlin and, 8–9, 30–31

  reorganization of, as monopoly, 156

  Tanner and, 9, 279, 280–82

  US Army and, 41, 315–16. See also American Fur Company; Americanization of fur trade; fur traders; Hudson’s Bay Company; liquor trafficking; North West Company; trading posts

  Fur Trade in Canada, The (InniS), 119

  fur traders: independent, 273, 319

  Indian killing of, 309–10

  Long expedition view of, 198

  marriage between Indians and, 104–7, 110, 170, 171

  mixed-blood children of, 284–85

  retirement of, 144, 238, 286

  running de dérouine, 280, 282

  Galbraith, John S., 155

  Gale, Samuel, 147, 149

  Garnett, John, 346

  G. & C. & H. Carvill (publishers), 349

  General Survey Act of 1824, 336

  Gi-ah-ge-wa-go-mo, 222–23, 288

  Gilbert, Angie Bingham, 326, 327, 328–29

  Glengarry Fencibles, 135

  Graham, George, 44–45, 164

  Graham, James Duncan, 174, 190

  Grand Portage, 65–66, 67, 68, 69, 79–80

  Great Britain. See Britain

  Gros Ventres, 75, 88

  Grover, LaFayette, 335

  Halley, Patrick L., 182

  Harmon, Daniel, 88, 103–4

  Harriman, Lucy, 19

  Harriman, Stephen, 19

  Height of Land, 109, 117

  Hempstead, 48

  Heney, Hugh, 218, 219, 221, 226, 227

  Henry, Alexander: departure from Pembina, 218

  journal of, 213, 344, 345

  Sioux massacre and, 95

  trading post of, 79, 94

  Henry, Robert, 132

  Hodgkis, Martha, 167, 168. See also Long, Martha

  Hodgkis, Sarah Dewees, 167, 169

  Hopkinton, New Hampshire, 18–20

  horses, 87–88

  Hubbard, Gurdon S., 321

  Hudson’s Bay Company: agricultural settlement policy of, 316

  Bay House, 152

  Brandon House, 76, 78, 209, 219, 221

  Brousse and, 234

  charges against, 142

  Columbia District, 319–20, 329–30

  competition faced by, 273

  as de facto colonial government, 285

  forts of, 116–17

  Fort Vancouver, 329, 334

  labor pool for, 6, 131

  London Committee of, 153, 154, 155

  Long expedition and, 195

  McLoughlin approach to, 147

  North West Company and, 8, 9, 120, 121, 132, 147–48, 155–56

  Parliament approval for, 157–58

  Red River colony and, 286

  royal charter of, 116, 121, 152, 156

  Selkirk and, 121

  Tanner and, 221, 234–38

  US expansionism and, 194. See also McLoughlin, John; Rainy Lake House

  human species, interest in origins of, 53–54

  Hunter, John Dunn, 349

  hunting, commercialization of, 81–82. See also beaver; buffalo

  Icelandic saga, 18

  Illinois country, 337–38

  Indian-European relations in fur trade, 5–7

  Indian-on-Indian murders, 311

  Indian removal policy, 197, 336–37, 338

  Indians: army officers’

  views of, 186–87

  assumptions of dependency of, 6–7, 42, 315–16

  assumptions of inferiority of, 6–7, 48

  civilization and assimilation of, 43–44, 197–98

  competition in fur trade and, 112–15

  division of labor between sexes, 171

  in fur trade, 6, 81–82

  as immigrants, 71

  interest in origins of, 53–55

  intertribal warfare, 93–94, 214

  Long on, 40–41, 172, 185–86, 187, 316, 337

  marriage between fur traders and, ­104–7, 110, 170, 171

  marriage forms of, ­170–71

  McLoughlin on, 111–12, 310

  in Ohio valley, 22

  Rocky Mountain expedition and, 185

  as superstitious, 111–12, 224–25, 227–28

  views of, 337

  westward migration of, 63–66. See also savagery; specific tribes

  inferiority of Indians, assumptions of, 6–7, 48

  Inman, Henry, 349

  Innis, Harold, 119, 156

  intermarriage: in Algonquian tribes, 28

  Crawford and, 44. See also marriage

  Isle Royale, 68–69

  Jackson, Andrew, 164–65, 336–37

  James, Edwin: book project and, 191, 347

  career of, 179

  Clark and, 182–83

  credibility of, 347–48

  Long and, 374n11

  northern territory expedition and, 193

  Tanner autobiography and, 4, 343, 345, 347, 374n10

  Jay’s Treaty of 1794, 41

  Jefferson, Thomas, 42, 52, 181–82

  Jessup, Augustus E., 174, 178

  Johnson, James, 176

  Johnson, John W., 47

  Johnson, Robert, 346

  Johnston, George, 273

  Jourdain, Jean Baptiste, 263

  Keating, William H.: on Fort Wayne population, 196

  on Métis, 203–4

  northern territory expedition and, 193

  at Rainy Lake House, 4

  Tanner and, 303, 307, 317

  on Wanatan, 200

  keelboats, 163, 176, 177

  Keepers of the Game (Martin), 81–82

  Kettle Falls, 279, 298

  Ke-wa-tin, 66

  Kimball, Abraham, 18–19

  kinship among Indian tribes, 170, 264

  Kish-kau-ko, 23, 24, 245

  Ko
ochiching Falls, 13

  Kurosawa, Akira, Rashômon, 5

  Lake Athabaska, 116, 117

  Lake Huron, 27, 28, 74, 77, 78–80, 85, 232

  Lake of the Woods, 116, 205, 225, 232

  Lake Pepin, 51

  Lake Traverse trading fort, 96, 199

  Lake Winnipeg, 70–71, 78, 116, 117, 205

  landforms, theories on origins of, 51

  L’Arbre Croche village, 28

  Leclair, François, 40

  Lee, Charles A., 327

  Le Maigouis, 216, 367n2

  Lewis, Meriwether, 163–64, 181, 182

  Lewis and Clark expedition, 13, 181–82, 183, 209, 345–46

  licensing system in fur trade, 42–43

  Lincoln, Abraham, 340

  liquor trafficking: Americans in, 282

  Long expedition and, 198

  Net-no-kwa and, 90

  by North West Company, 113–14

  Pe-shau-ba and, 76–77, 78

  Tanner and, 279–80, 282

  Little Clear Sky, 4–5, 293–95, 296, 298, 309, 311, 319, 320

  Little Deer, 269

  London, McLoughlin trip to, 150–55

  Long, Edwin James, 374n10

  Long, Enoch, 20, 339

  Long, Henry Clay, 339, 374n10

  Long, Lucy Leonis, 339, 374n10

  Long, Martha, 189, 338, 339. See also Hodgkis, Martha

  Long, Mary, 374n10

  Long, Moses, 19, 20

  Long, Richard Harlan, 374n10

  Long, Stephen H.: Alton, Illinois, and, 338–39

  background of, 8

  birth of, 19

  Calhoun and, 165–66

  career of, 2, 21, 164, 168, 335–36, 341

  cartographic projects of, 191–92

  character of, 168–69

  Chicago land speculation of, 338

  children of, 189, 339, 374n10

  Clark and, 182–83

  contemporary thought and, 55

  daughters of Tanner and, 305

  death of, 341

  education of, 20

  as ethnographer, 49

  expeditions of, 13, 188

  as explorer, 9

  family of, 19

  first assignment of, 39, 40

  funds of, 340–41

  on fur trade, 315–16

  hometown of, 18–20

  on Illinois country, 337–38

  illness of, 189–90

  income and household of, 192–93

  on Indian tribes, 40–41, 172, 185–86, 187, 316, 337

  Jackson and, 164–65

  journal entry of, 4

  map of travels of, ix; marriage of, 167, 169

  on McLoughlin, 306

  Osage country and, 56–57

  Peale portrait of, 175

  privilege and, 338

  at Rainy Lake House, 303

  religion of, 20

  “Report of the Western River Expedition,” 185–86

  reports of, 40–41, 44–45, 51, 57–60, 185–86, 187

  reputation of, 183

  second assignment of, 46–47, 48–50

  steamboat exploration and, 163–64, 165–66

  Tanner and, 2, 4, 17, 170, 255, 303–5, 307–8, 317

  timeline of, xiii

  “Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff,” 339

  on white-Indian contact, 316–17. See also northern territory expedition; western river expedition; Yellowstone expedition

  Long, William Dewees, 339, 374n10

  Loomis, Noel, 346

  Lovejoy, Elijah P., 339

  Lovely, William, 57–58, 59

  Lovely Purchase, 58, 59–60

  Macdonell, Alexander, 125–26, 131

  Macdonell, Miles: as free on bail, 135

  as governor of Red River colony, 123–24, 126–27, 226

  plan for removal of, 125

  as prisoner, 129, 131

  at Rainy Lake fort, 234

  Mackinac Island, 28, 251–52, 321–22

  Mackinac village, 257

  Macomb, Alexander, 193

  Maligne River, 317–18

  mammalian diving reflex, 140

  Manitoo-geezhik, 23–27, 28

  Manitou Rapids, 279

  marriage: à la façon du pays, 106–7

  in Algonquian tribes, 28

  among Indian peoples, 28, 170–71

  for army officers, 167–68

  change in pattern of, 169–70

  companionate, 170

  Crawford on intermarriage, 44

  “education families” idea of Morse, 171–72

  of fur traders, 104–7, 110, 170, 171

  interracial, 44, 170

  of Long, 167, 169

  of McLoughlin, 8, 104–6, 107–8, 109–10

  in Ottawa-Ojibwa culture, 89–90

  romantic love and, 169

  of Tanner, 91–92, 223, 326

  Martin, Calvin, 81–82

  Mason, Myra Peters, 322

  McCulloh, James Haines, 55–56

  McGillis, Hugh, 89

  McGillivray, John, 130

  McGillivray, Simon (brother of William), 14–15, 122, 125, 129–30, 154, 155. See also McTavish, McGillivrays and Company

  McGillivray, Simon (son of William), 157, 262–63, 273, 300, 301, 305

  McGillivray, William: arrest of, 135–37

  J. Caldwell and, 151–52

  Fauche and, 139

  Hudson’s Bay Company and, 134, 147

  Macdonell and, 124

  McLoughlin and, 34–35, 130, 148

  negotiations of, 154

  North West Company and, 101

  as principal trader, 79

  at rendezvous of 1814, 126

  Selkirk and, 135–36

  son of, 157, 262

  wintering partners and, 129, 145–47. See also McTavish, McGillivrays and Company

  McKay, Alexander, 106, 107, 108

  McKay, John, 221

  McKay, Marguerite Wadin: children of, 107

  life of, 105–6

  marriage of, 8

  McLoughlin and, 107–8, 109–10. See also McLoughlin, Marguerite

  McKay, Mary, 320

  McKay, Nancy, 146

  McKay, Thomas, 107, 108, 331

  McKenzie, Daniel, 218

  McKenzie, Kenneth, 135–36

  McLellan, Archibald, 236–37

  McLeod, Archibald, 125, 130, 132, 133

  McLoughlin, David (brother of John), 155, 158–59, 331

  McLoughlin, David (son of John), 261, 320, 331

  McLoughlin, Eliza, 320

  McLoughlin, Eloisa, 261, 319, 331, 335

  McLoughlin, John: as apprentice clerk, 103

  arrest of, 136–37, 138

  background of, 7–8

  birth of, 31

  character and appearance of, 102

  as chief factor, 3–4, 115, 144–45, 157, 159–60, 261–67, 319

  children of, 104, 105, 108, 127, 138, 149

  claim of, 330, 334

  Columbia District and, 319–20, 329–30

  convalescence of, 158

  Côté and, 312–13

  daughters of Tanner and, 305–6

  death of, 335

  “Description of the Indians from Fort William to Lake of the Woods,” 103, 114, 310

  as doctor, 30, 32–33, 101, 102–3

  family of, 31–32, 144

  as “Father of Oregon,” 8–9, 335

  finances of, 371n4

  at Fort William, 101–5, 148

  fur trade and, 30–31

  heritage, education, and, 332–33

  journal entry of, 4

  on liquor trafficking, 113

  Little Clear Sky and, 293

  London trip of, 150–55

  Long expedition and, 311

  map of travels of, xi

  marriages of, 8, 104–6, 107–8, 109–10

  McGillivrays and, 35, 129–30, 135–36

  near-drowning of, 139–41

  North West Company and, 8,
33–35, 109

  on Oregon country, 330–31

  as partner, 124–25, 126, 145

  provisional government and, 333

  questioning of, 141

  rebelliousness of, 130

  Red River colony and, 132–33

  religion of, 262

  reports of, 103, 114

  on revenge and retaliation, 310

  on superstition of Indians, 111–12

  Tanner and, 4–5, 30, 127–28, 230, 244, 311–12, 318

  Tanner attack and, 309

  timeline of, xiii

  transgression of, 32

  trial of, 143

  as “White-headed Eagle,” 329–30

  McLoughlin, John (son of John), 320, 331–32

  McLoughlin, Joseph, 104, 105, 320, 331

  McLoughlin, Marguerite, 138, 146, 149, 319–20, 335, 388–89n6. See also McKay, Marguerite Wadin

  McNabb, John, 135–36

  McTavish, McGillivrays and Company, 125, 145, 154. See also North West Company

  McTavish, Simon, 33–34

  Mead, Joel, 45

  measles, 64–65

  medicine hunts, 72, 83

  Métis: Battle of Seven Oaks, 133–34, 142–43

  interracial families of, 285

  on Mackinac Island, 321–22

  North West Company and, 237

  in Pembina, 203–4

  Pemmican Proclamation and, 123–24

  pemmican production by, 121

  Pemmican War and, 126, 127

  Red River country and, 121

  Michigan Territory, 246

  migration: eastward, of Net-no-kwa, 78–80

  of southern plainfolk, 255–56

  southward, of Ottawas and Ojibwas, 213–14

  westward, of Indians, 63–66

  militia, 126

  Mis-kwa-bun-o-kwa. See Red Sky of the Morning

  missionary work: on Mackinac Island, 322, 325

  in Oregon country, 330

  in Red River valley, 285–86

  Mississippian Indian culture, 52–53

  Mississippi River, 339

  Missouri River, 163, 164, 165–66, 176–77

  Missouri Territory, 246

  Moffatt, George, 147, 149

  Monroe, James, 44, 164

  Moodie, D. W., 232

  Morrison, William, 258, 275

  Morse, Jedediah, 171–72

  mounds, ancient, builders of, 52–53, 55

  Mouse River Fort, 76. See also Brandon House

  Munro, Henry, 34, 101

  muskeg, 229–30, 234–35

  Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (James), 4, 343–50

  nationalists: army engineers and, 335–36

  fur trade and, 194–95

  Indian policy and, 336–37

  near-drowning and mammalian diving reflex, 140

  Net-no-kwa: aid for family of, 83–84

  Cheboygan village and, 28

  children adopted by, 213

  death of, 236

  drunkenness of, 70–71

  migrations of, 63, 64–66, 70, 74, 77–80

  Ojibwas and, 68–69

  Pe-shau-ba and, 74–75, 78–79

  promissory note for, 85, 86, 221

  Tanner and, 27, 66–67, 87, 90, 235–36

 

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