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While the economic and political aspects of the fur trade get considerable focus, many scholars have neglected the cultural practices and beliefs of traders and Hudson’s Bay Company [HBC] employees. No aspect of fort life makes this more apparent than religion. As I intend to show, religion continued to be a significant concern for traders…

While most historiography on the effects of colonization on flora concerns plants transferred between the metropole and the periphery and vice versa, Camas failed to do so, despite occupying a substantial place in the Pacific Northwest’s history. Camas (from the Nez Perce word qém̓es, meaning “sweet”) is the vernacular name for camassia, a genus of…