Susan Sleeper-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 434813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Sleeper-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sleeper-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SLEEPER-SMITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Native Nations
Native America after 1763
The Seven Years’ War changed the dynamics of Indigenous-Euro-American interaction. In sparsely settled regions, like the Great Lakes, Native people continued to play Great Britain against the Spanish and later, against the US. While French North America appeared to offer British leaders limitless possibilities for economic expansion the massive debt Britain acquired as a result of the war forced drastic reductions in imperial expenditures. Pontia…
“[A]n Unpleasant Transaction on this Frontier”
This chapter focuses on few native women who held positions of authority and autonomy because of their access to furs through indigenous kin networks and to trade goods through their fur-trader husbands. It examines how the transition in sovereignty from France, to Britain, to the United States compromised the autonomy and authority that had accrued to three female fur traders: Elizabeth Mitchell, Magdelaine Marcot La Framboise, and Therese Marco…
After One Hundred Winters
Journal Article After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands Get access After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands. By Margaret D Jacobs. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. x, 343 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Paper, $19.95.) Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Emeritus Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Seeing Red
In Seeing Red, Michael Witgen shows how “a political economy of plunder” dispossessed Indigenous nations of their lands and resources in the western Great Lakes following the Revolutionary War. The Northwest Ordinance facilitated the “systematic dispossession of Native peoples in the service of expanding the territorial boundaries of the United States.” (p. 211) Settler colonial domination of the eastern seaboard occurred over the long durée of o…
T heodore C atton . Rainy Lake House
Theodore Catton’s Rainy Lake House revolves around three men, John Tanner, Stephen H. Long, and Dr. John McLoughlin, whose lives became intertwined after they met at a Hudson’s Bay Company outpost in 1823. Tanner, a white Indian, was captured on the Kentucky frontier in 1790 and lived among the Odawa for the next thirty years. Long was on his second expedition as an officer in the U.S. Topographical Engineers, commissioned to explore the northern…
Presidential Address
In the eighteenth-century western Great Lakes, the French and British established forts to guard a highly profitable fur trade. Places like Fort Michilimackinac became synonymous with the fur trade. In warmer regions an equally profitable Indian-controlled fur trade also took place. This article examines the Wabash River valley trade and shows how two Indian villages, Kethtippecanuck and Miamitown, dominated the exchange process. Economics and so…
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Examines the Ohio River valley though an environmental lens and explores the role that American Indian women played in creating a sedentary agrarian village world in this rich and fertile landscape. Focuses on the crescent of Indian communities located along the banks of the Wabash River valley, a major Ohio tributary, to trace the evolution of the agrarian-trading nexus that shaped village life. The agricultural work of Indian women and their in…
Encounters at the Heart of the World
Journal Article Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People Get access Elizabeth A. Fenn. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. xx, 456 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1222–1223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav142 Published: 01 March 2015
TRACY Neal Leavelle. The Catholic Calumet
In this book, Tracey Neal Leavelle examines Jesuit-Algonquian interaction in the western Great Lakes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He primarily focuses on Claude-John Allouez and Jacques Gravier, whose extensive writings demonstrate the syncretism of Catholicism with indigenous beliefs and ritual practices. Leavelle reveals how the Jesuits communicated the tenets of Christianity through their devotion to the reconstruction of N…
Contesting Knowledge
Introduction (Susan Sleeper-Smith) Section One: Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Introduction (Ray Silverman) Elite Ethnography and Cultural Eradication: Confronting the Cannibal in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Hal Langfur) Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Indigenous Resistance (Zine Magubane) Re-Inventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American and its Collections (Ann McMullen) Ethnographic E…
Dark Storm Moving West
Book Review| October 01 2008 Dark Storm Moving West By Barbara Belyea. (Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2007. $49.95 paper.) Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 681–683. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Sleeper-Smith; Dark Storm Movi…
Sifters
Theda Perdue, ed. Sifters: Native American Women's Lives. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 260 pp. ISBN 0-19-513081-2, $19.95
The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846
Indian women and French men
New Faces of the Fur Trade
To Be the Main Leaders of Our People
Journal Article To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825–1898. By Rebecca Kugel. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 227 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87013-431-0.) Get access Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, Jun…
Women, Kin, and Catholicism
This article focuses on four Native women who were Christian converts and married French fur traders. As "cultural mediators" and"negotiators of change" they mediated the face-to-face exchange of goods for peltry in the western Great Lakes through Catholic kin networks that paralleled and extended those of indigenous society. Their reliance on kinship and Catholicism suggests new ways to study women's involvement in the trade and to reassess how …
Tecumseh
Journal Article Tecumseh: A Life. By John Sugden. (New York: Holt, 1997. xii, 492 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8050-4138-9.) Get access Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1582–1583, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568305 Published: 01 March 1999
New Faces of the Fur Trade
Journal Article New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. Ed. by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 358 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87013-434-5.) Get access Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Newberry Library Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced an…
The dream as a tool for historical research
Indian women and French men
Women, Kin, and Catholicism
This article focuses on four Native women who were Christian converts and married French fur traders. As "cultural mediators" and"negotiators of change" they mediated the face-to-face exchange of goods for peltry in the western Great Lakes through Catholic kin networks that paralleled and extended those of indigenous society. Their reliance on kinship and Catholicism suggests new ways to study women's involvement in the trade and to reassess how …
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Examines the Ohio River valley though an environmental lens and explores the role that American Indian women played in creating a sedentary agrarian village world in this rich and fertile landscape. Focuses on the crescent of Indian communities located along the banks of the Wabash River valley, a major Ohio tributary, to trace the evolution of the agrarian-trading nexus that shaped village life. The agricultural work of Indian women and their in…
Encounters at the Heart of the World
Journal Article Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People Get access Elizabeth A. Fenn. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. xx, 456 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1222–1223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav142 Published: 01 March 2015
After One Hundred Winters
Journal Article After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands Get access After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands. By Margaret D Jacobs. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. x, 343 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Paper, $19.95.) Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Emeritus Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Presidential Address
In the eighteenth-century western Great Lakes, the French and British established forts to guard a highly profitable fur trade. Places like Fort Michilimackinac became synonymous with the fur trade. In warmer regions an equally profitable Indian-controlled fur trade also took place. This article examines the Wabash River valley trade and shows how two Indian villages, Kethtippecanuck and Miamitown, dominated the exchange process. Economics and so…
To Be the Main Leaders of Our People
Journal Article To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825–1898. By Rebecca Kugel. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 227 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87013-431-0.) Get access Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, Jun…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced an…
The dream as a tool for historical research
The dream as a tool for historical research
Tecumseh
Journal Article Tecumseh: A Life. By John Sugden. (New York: Holt, 1997. xii, 492 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8050-4138-9.) Get access Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1582–1583, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568305 Published: 01 March 1999
New Faces of the Fur Trade
Journal Article New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. Ed. by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 358 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87013-434-5.) Get access Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Newberry Library Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
New Faces of the Fur Trade
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced an…
Women, Kin, and Catholicism
This article focuses on four Native women who were Christian converts and married French fur traders. As "cultural mediators" and"negotiators of change" they mediated the face-to-face exchange of goods for peltry in the western Great Lakes through Catholic kin networks that paralleled and extended those of indigenous society. Their reliance on kinship and Catholicism suggests new ways to study women's involvement in the trade and to reassess how …
Indian women and French men
New Faces of the Fur Trade
To Be the Main Leaders of Our People
Journal Article To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825–1898. By Rebecca Kugel. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 227 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87013-431-0.) Get access Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, Jun…
Sifters
Theda Perdue, ed. Sifters: Native American Women's Lives. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 260 pp. ISBN 0-19-513081-2, $19.95
The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846
Dark Storm Moving West
Book Review| October 01 2008 Dark Storm Moving West By Barbara Belyea. (Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2007. $49.95 paper.) Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 681–683. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Sleeper-Smith; Dark Storm Movi…
Contesting Knowledge
Introduction (Susan Sleeper-Smith) Section One: Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Introduction (Ray Silverman) Elite Ethnography and Cultural Eradication: Confronting the Cannibal in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Hal Langfur) Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Indigenous Resistance (Zine Magubane) Re-Inventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American and its Collections (Ann McMullen) Ethnographic E…
TRACY Neal Leavelle. The Catholic Calumet
In this book, Tracey Neal Leavelle examines Jesuit-Algonquian interaction in the western Great Lakes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He primarily focuses on Claude-John Allouez and Jacques Gravier, whose extensive writings demonstrate the syncretism of Catholicism with indigenous beliefs and ritual practices. Leavelle reveals how the Jesuits communicated the tenets of Christianity through their devotion to the reconstruction of N…
Encounters at the Heart of the World
Journal Article Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People Get access Elizabeth A. Fenn. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. xx, 456 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1222–1223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav142 Published: 01 March 2015
T heodore C atton . Rainy Lake House
Theodore Catton’s Rainy Lake House revolves around three men, John Tanner, Stephen H. Long, and Dr. John McLoughlin, whose lives became intertwined after they met at a Hudson’s Bay Company outpost in 1823. Tanner, a white Indian, was captured on the Kentucky frontier in 1790 and lived among the Odawa for the next thirty years. Long was on his second expedition as an officer in the U.S. Topographical Engineers, commissioned to explore the northern…
Presidential Address
In the eighteenth-century western Great Lakes, the French and British established forts to guard a highly profitable fur trade. Places like Fort Michilimackinac became synonymous with the fur trade. In warmer regions an equally profitable Indian-controlled fur trade also took place. This article examines the Wabash River valley trade and shows how two Indian villages, Kethtippecanuck and Miamitown, dominated the exchange process. Economics and so…
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Examines the Ohio River valley though an environmental lens and explores the role that American Indian women played in creating a sedentary agrarian village world in this rich and fertile landscape. Focuses on the crescent of Indian communities located along the banks of the Wabash River valley, a major Ohio tributary, to trace the evolution of the agrarian-trading nexus that shaped village life. The agricultural work of Indian women and their in…
“[A]n Unpleasant Transaction on this Frontier”
This chapter focuses on few native women who held positions of authority and autonomy because of their access to furs through indigenous kin networks and to trade goods through their fur-trader husbands. It examines how the transition in sovereignty from France, to Britain, to the United States compromised the autonomy and authority that had accrued to three female fur traders: Elizabeth Mitchell, Magdelaine Marcot La Framboise, and Therese Marco…
After One Hundred Winters
Journal Article After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands Get access After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands. By Margaret D Jacobs. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. x, 343 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Paper, $19.95.) Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Emeritus Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Seeing Red
In Seeing Red, Michael Witgen shows how “a political economy of plunder” dispossessed Indigenous nations of their lands and resources in the western Great Lakes following the Revolutionary War. The Northwest Ordinance facilitated the “systematic dispossession of Native peoples in the service of expanding the territorial boundaries of the United States.” (p. 211) Settler colonial domination of the eastern seaboard occurred over the long durée of o…
Native America after 1763
The Seven Years’ War changed the dynamics of Indigenous-Euro-American interaction. In sparsely settled regions, like the Great Lakes, Native people continued to play Great Britain against the Spanish and later, against the US. While French North America appeared to offer British leaders limitless possibilities for economic expansion the massive debt Britain acquired as a result of the war forced drastic reductions in imperial expenditures. Pontia…
Native Nations
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