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Join us as Carl Gawboy presents Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe's Graphic History, in conversation with Timothy Cochrane, author of the award-winning Making the Carry.A nationally recognized artist and member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Carl Gawboy taught college courses on this extraordinary historical period for 30 years. He has distilled his knowledge into more than 800 pen and ink drawings, connecting historical records and art, oral traditions, Western and Indigenous scholarship, family history and contemporary artisans who continue to practice the crafts which sustained the Fur Trade.
"We clothed the royals. We fed the worker. We guided the traveler. We abetted the soldier. We are not afraid to love." So begins Carl Gawboy's groundbreaking graphic history of the Fur Trade Era. From 1650 to 1850, the Ojibwe Nation was the epicenter of the first global trading network. Trade goods from Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America flowed into the Great Lakes region, floating along Ojibwe waterways in birchbark canoes paddled by mixed-race Voyageurs. Gawboy offers a fresh perspective on the fur trade era, placing Ojibwe technology, kinship systems, cultural paradigms, and women at the heart of this remarkable era, where they have always belonged.
Timothy Cochrane was superintendent at Grand Portage National Monument for twenty years, where he worked closely with the Grand Portage Band of Anishinaabeg and the tribal council. His books include A Good Boat Speaks for Itself: Isle Royale Fishermen and Their Boats, Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade, Minong: The Good Place—Ojibwe and Isle Royale. His most recent book Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater won the 2024 Northeast Minnesota Book Award (NEMBA) for nonfiction.
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase. A book signing will follow audience Q&A.
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318 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55807
