Arthur J Ray

Biographic Data

ID249495
NAMEArthur J Ray
GIVEN NAMESArthur J
FAMILY NAMERay
SIGNATURERAY A J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • From the Frozen Sea to Buffalo Country

    Arthur J RayBOOKFrom the Frozen Sea to Buffalo…2022

  • Opponents and Neighbours

    Open AccessArthur J RayARTICLECanadian Historical Review2022

    "Opponents and Neighbours: Fort George and Buckingham House and the Early Fur Trade on the North Saskatchewan River, 1792 to 1800. Douglas R. Babcock with Michael Payne." Canadian Historical Review, 103(2), pp. 323–324

  • Some Conservation Schemes of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1821–50

    Arthur J RayCHAPTERAgriculture, Resource Exploitation,…2021

    Current interests in the plight of many Indian groups, and the concern with ecologically directed conservation efforts, has stimulated a re-examination of the North American fur trade. The problems which Governor Simpson and the Company faced in their efforts to husband beaver populations in this region were similar to those which they faced in other areas and, or, in the management of other resources. The Indians faced similar hardships in the W…

  • Life and Death by the Frozen Sea

    James Knight, Arthur J RayBOOKLife and death by the frozen sea2018

    "In September 1714, Governor James Knight, who was in his early seventies and one of the most experienced men ever to assume command of a Hudson's Bay Company post, arrived at Fort Bourbon on the western shores of Hudson Bay to take possession of the twenty-year-old French fort. He renamed it York Fort and it is subsequently remembered as York Factory. Knight's daily journal during his tenure (1714-17) at the fort offers an extraordinary narrativ…

  • White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

    Open AccessArthur J RayARTICLEARCTIC2018

  • Illustrated History of Canada's Native People, Fourth Edition

    Arthur J RayBOOKIllustrated History of Canada's…2016

    Canada’s Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur Ray charts the history of Canada’s Native people from first contact to cur…

  • Traditional Knowledge and Social Science on Trial

    Open AccessArthur J RayARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2015

    Traditional knowledge and oral traditions history are crucial lines of evidence in Aboriginal claims litigation and alternative forms of resolution, most notably claims commissions. This article explores the ways in which these lines of evidence pose numerous challenges in terms of how and where they can be presented, who is qualified to present it, questions about whether this evidence can stand on its own, and the problems of developing appropr…

  • Ethnohistorical geography and aboriginal rights litigation in Canada

    Open AccessArthur J RayARTICLECanadian Geographies /…2011Cited by: 1References: 7

    Since the early 1950s, evidence from ethnohistorical geography has played an important role in aboriginal rights claims and litigation in North America. I became involved in Canadian aboriginal and treaty rights litigation over 35 years ago. My participation has included several landmark cases: Regina v. Horseman (treaty rights), Delgamuukw v. Regina (Comprehensive title claim), and Regina v. Powley (Métis rights). Most of the evidence that I hav…

  • Telling it to the Judge

    Arthur J RayBOOKTelling It to the Judge2011Cited by: 5

    In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada. Legal claims have raised questions with significant historical implications, such as, "What treaty rights have survived in various parts of Canada? What is the scope of Aboriginal title? Who are the Métis, where do they live, and what is the nature of their culture and their rights?"

  • An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People

    Arthur J RayBOOKIllustrated History of Canada's…2011

    Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur J. Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to c…

  • Native History on Trial

    Open AccessArthur J Ray, Arthur RayARTICLECanadian Historical Review2003

    The era of Aboriginal claims and litigation began in the United States shortly after the Second World War and, some twenty to thirty years later, in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. From the beginning it has been an interactive process involving the Aboriginal, academic, and legal communities. This article offers a comparative perspective on the issues of voice, research, and evidence which, along with the objectivity of academic experts, has …

  • Bounty and Benevolence

    Arthur J Ray, Jim Miller et al.BOOKBounty and Benevolence2000

    Arthur Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough draw on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements. The authors explain how Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing First Nations' Hudson's Bay Company diplomatic and economic understandings, treaty practices developed in eastern Canada before the 1870s, and the changing economic and political realities of …

  • The Northern Interior, 1600 to modern times

    Open AccessArthur J RayCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of the…1996

    The postcontact experience of the Native peoples of the boreal forest zone has been fundamentally different from that of aboriginal groups living in all other areas of North America. The fur trade has remained important for Subarctic Natives ever since they first encountered Europeans. In most places Europeans have not pushed them off the land because extensive agriculture is not possible. Native languages continue to flourish. Apart from the fur…

  • The Fur Trade Revisited

    Arthur J Ray, Jennifer S H Brown et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1995

  • The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age

    Patricia A Mccormack, Arthur J RayARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1992

    Journal Article The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age Get access The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age. By Ray Arthur J.. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xviii + 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $18.95, paper.) Patricia A. McCormack Patricia A. McCormack Provincial Museum of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W…

  • The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age

    William R Swagerty, Arthur J RayARTICLEEthnohistory1992

  • Fur Trade History and the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en Comprehensive Claim

    Arthur J RayCHAPTERAboriginal Resource Use in Canada1991

  • Many Tender Ties

    Arthur J RayREVIEWThe American Historical Review1985

  • Approaches to the Ethnohistory of the Subarctic

    Arthur J Ray, Arthur Roberts et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1985

  • Old Trails and New Directions

    Adrian Tanner, Carol M Judd et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1985

  • Old Trails and New Directions

    Jean Friesen, Carol M Judd et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1983Cited by: 1

  • Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade

    Arthur J Ray, Shepard Krech et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1983

  • Old Trails and New Directions

    Shepard Krech, Carol M Judd et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1982

  • Reflections on Fur Trade Social History and Métis History in Canada

    Open AccessArthur J RayARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…1982Cited by: 1

    A striking aspect of the historiography of Metis studies in Canada and the northern United States relates to the fact that Marcel Giraud's classic study, Le Metis Canadien, published in 1945, did not have the immediate effect of stimulating a great deal of additional research. While the quality of Giraud's work was of such high standards that his book is still an invaluable source, nonetheless it is useful to consider why it did not serve to spar…

  • Give Us Good Measure

    Robert Jarvenpa, Arthur J Ray et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1981