The Native Woman Who Became A Chief — The Forgotten Story Of Woman Chief, The Warrior Who Led The Crow
She was a chief.
She earned it.
Now you know.
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The Fur Trade World and Its Documentation
Understanding why Denig’s account of Woman Chief is so valuable requires understanding the specific world of the fur trade and the documentary practices it generated.
The American Fur Company operated Fort Union at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers — the dominant trading post on the upper Missouri — through the middle decades of the nineteenth century.
The men who managed these posts were not scholars or government officials in the formal sense, but they were observers with strong practical reasons to understand the peoples they were trading with.
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