This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A new independent documentary, ‘Skin Trade,’ aims to take on the fur ...
This short film from 1946 presents an outline of the fur trade's history and the commercial use of fur in Canada. A thirst for fur by the kings and courts of the Old World positioned the fur trade as ...
A new documentary, titled Slay, from Keegan Kuhn the producer of 2017’s What the Health and Cowspiracy, follows filmmaker Rebecca Cappelli as she travels and investigates the animal skin trade in ...
That’s what author and illustrator Carl Gawboy wrote next to a hand-drawn map of Minnesota in his book “Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History.” Gawboy’s pen-and-ink drawing shows the state ...
ADA, Mich. — It was history on display in Ada Sunday, as a reenactment group helped take us back two-hundred years to a fur trader camp on the bank of the Grand River. Tom Robinson, one of the actors, ...
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Why Russia’s Colonial Empire Failed

Russia once held ambitions to dominate parts of North America, stretching from Alaska down the Pacific coast. In this video ...
This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The two landmasses that make up the bulk ...