Fur Trade

Early French Fur Trade in Minnesota

Greg Cash discusses the fur trade from 1650s Radisson/Groseilliers to the American Fur Company.

Mark Labine presents on the early history of Mendota, St. Peter treaties, and the Selkirk colonists.

The story of first contact in 1606 between a French youth and an Indigenous youth.

A dark allegory of greed set in 1823 during the brutal early days of the fur trade.

A short film recreating 19th-century fur trade scenes with an all-male chorus soundtrack.

A short vignette about the men who drove freighter canoes during the fur trade era.

Traditional folk song representing the life of the voyageurs.

Biography of the French-Dakota trader active in early Minnesota.

Biography of the mixed-blood fur trader and French-Winnebago interpreter.

A collection of biographies and histories of French merchants, officers, and voyageurs including surname variations.