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One of Nobel prize winner Sinclair Lewis' lesser-known novels, Mantrap, published in 1926, can be read for its perspectives on northern Saskatchewan and the small community of Pelican Narrows in [...]

This article argues that the meaning of Alberta's 'Neutral Hills' developed in the context of the periodic mild winters that adversely affected hunting in other areas of the plains and brought groups, even those at war, together in the same hunting grounds. In a region where Aboriginal oral tradition was inextricably linked to the landscape, Niitsitapi (Blackfoot nations), Cree, Nakoda, and Saulteaux found the means to cooperate in seasonal hunting camps. Winter camps provided a context where critical exchanges of labour, oral traditions, and kinship shaped relations among nations, even those at war with each other in other circumstances. Keywords: landscape; climate change; oral tradition; Native history; Western Canada; fur trade; environmental history; Aboriginal peace and war; territoriality Resume analytique : Dans cet article, nous soutenons que la signification des <> de TAlberta s'etablit dans le contexte des hivers doux periodiques qui eurent des consequences defavorables sur la chasse dans d'autres regions des plaines et qui rassemblerent des groupes, meme ceux qui etaient en etat de guerre, dans de memes terrains de chasse. Dans une region ou la tradition orale indigene etait liee inextricablement au paysage, les Niitsitapi (les nations Blackfoot), les Cree, les Nakoda et les Saulteaux trouverent les moyens de collaborer dans des camps de chasse saisonniers. Ces camps d'hiver foumirent un contexte ou des echanges de taches cruciales, ainsi que des traditions orales et des liens de parente, faconnerent les rapports entre les nations, meme entre celles qui etaient en d'autres circonstances, en etat de guerre les uns des autres. Mots-cles : paysage; changement climatique; tradition orale; histoire des peuples indigenes; le Canada de l'Ouest; traite des fourrures; histoire de l'environnement; guerre et paix des peuples indigenes; territorialite, A spate of mild winters in the early 1830s disrupted the migrations of bison in the northern Plains, seriously challenging the hunting and subsistence strategies of the region's Native peoples [...]

MASTERS AND SERVANTS: THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY AND ITS NORTH AMERICAN WORKFORCE, 1668-1786. By SCOTT P. STEPHEN. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2019. ISNB 978-1-77212-337-1. 448 p., maps, b&w illus., [...]

Between 1890 and World War One, western Canadians advertised their region as the last wildlife stronghold in North America. Few studies have assessed how and why westerners sought to win [...]