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| Money Earned after costs are subtracted is what? |
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| Supply of a useful material |
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| Animal skin with the fur on it |
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| Place where goods and canoes had to carried over land |
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| Children of mixed race such as an Ojibwe or Dakota mother and a European father |
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| Person hired to help voyageurs and fur traders travel through unknown paths |
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| Pelt of what animal was the most valueable in the fur trade? |
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| Role of the Ojibwe and Dakota women in the fur trade was what? |
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| They cleaned pelts, provided resources like wild rice and maple sugar and materials to make and repair canoes. |
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| Why did the Ojibwe and Dakota want European items? |
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| It made their lives easier. |
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| Was the fur trade a wold wide trade or one that just helped Minnesotans? |
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| Did the Fur trade the change the lives of the American Indians? |
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| What was the goal of the Europeans in the fur trading business? |
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| When did the French traders show up in MN? |
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| Beaver pelts were used to make what? |
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| Valuable felt top hats worn in Europe |
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| Why did Explorers come to MN? |
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| Missionaries came to MN for what reason? |
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| To spread Christianity (teach about Jesus) |
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| What were popular trade goods that the Dakota and Ojibwe wanted? |
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| Metals like knives, guns, kettles and ax heads. Aslo beads, dyes, cloth and clothes. |
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| Person who translated for people who speak a different language? |
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| Workman of fur trade who canoed, chopped wood, built shelter, couldn't read or wirte and were paid very little were who? |
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| Man who managed trading post, could read and write but had no hig social position? |
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| Person in charge of trading post, comes from weathy family with a high social position and could read and write was who? |
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| In the winter the main activity in the fur trading post was to ? |
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| In the spring, the main activity of the fur trading post was to? |
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| Pack and prepare the canoe to leave |
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| In the summer the main activity in the trading post was the? |
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| In the fall, the main activity in the tradign post was to? |
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