THE FUR TRADE

AUTUMN

• Oct. 1804 John Sayer arrives at Snake River site to oversee construction of new trading post
• OJibwe were frequent visitors
• relationships developed during construction
• goods were given to Ojibwe on credit to be paid back during winter trading season

WINTER

• men trapped beavers
• women prepared furs and cooked food for trading
• voyageurs went to lodges to trade for extra deer and bear meat
• voyageurs built sleds, chopped wood, and did other chores assigned to them

SPRING

• netted fish and hunted ducks
• repaired canoes
• packaged beaver pelts
• left Snake River and went to Fort William
• Ojibwe continued to hunt beavers and made and repaired canoes

SPRING

• in early March Ojibwe women went to sugar camps to make maple sugar
• in April Ojibwe went to fort and paid what they owed to company or buy extra goods
• Ojibwe recieved medals, ammunition, and tobacco

SUMMER

• rendezvous at Fort William
• people brought and shipped off pelts