inside a trading post
traders' artifacts
museum "baidarka" model
fur traders' rifles
The Museum of the Fur Trade, a private museum outside Chadron, Nebraska, was a fun stop, though I'm sure not all the fun was the museum's intent. The displays, covering the fur trade throughout North America from the first Europeans to the multi-national Hudson's Bay Company, were pretty extensive and interesting. However, they could do without the introductory film which used historic reenactments that were shot in the 1930s and in which the Indians greeted the white men with "How!"
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This museum is a fabulous example of outdated anthropology. And the film would have made my undergrad instructors in the Native American Studies dept. livid!
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