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upland Indian Fur Trade

• an Indian, especially a Cree, from the interior, as opposed to those in the vicinity of the Hudson's Bay posts.

  See also: home-guard (Indian)  uplander  

  • 1697  (1929)  Likewise an upland Indian & his wife came to y^e fort from up this river w^eh traded some beaver.
  • 1744  There were about 100 Upland Indians came in their Canoes to trade, and about 200 Northern Indians, who brought their Furs and Peltry upon Sledges.
  • 1790  In the month of March, the Upland Indians assemble on the banks of a particular lake . . . .
  • 1924  We were provided with an open "York" boat and a crew, one Captain John Puggie, a half-breed post servant, and three upland Indians, one of whom . . . was Chief of the Moose River Crees.