Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295244 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 24-04
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
This paper examines the responses of Indigenous nations and European companies to new trading opportunities: Cree nations and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and Khoe nations and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This case study is important because of the disparate outcomes: within a few decades the Cree standard of living had increased, and Khoe had lost land and cattle. Standard histories begin with the establishment of trading posts but this elides the decades of prior intermittent contact which played an important role in the disparate outcomes in the two regions. The paper emphasizes the significance of Indigenous agency in trade.
Subjects: 
Indigenous economics
trade
ecology
cross-continental comparison
JEL: 
N30
N70
N71
N77
J15
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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