Fur Trade in Minnesota: Educational Resources

Teacher tools

Activities

• Ojibwe Shoulder Bag Curriculum Kit

Programs/Field trips at the Minnesota History Center

• Exhibit: Then Now Wow

Historic sites

• Snake River
• Historic Fort Snelling
• Sibley Historic Site

Suggested reading

Online resources

• Research guide: Fur Trade in Minnesota
• Historic Fort Snelling: Fur Trade
• History of North West Company Fur Post

Minnesota History magazine articles

• Last Days of the Upper Mississippi Fur Trade (PDF 3 MB, Winter 1970)
• The Fur Trade of the Western Great Lakes Region (PDF 1.5 MB, September 1938)
• Posts in the Minnesota Fur-Trading Area, 1660-1855 (PDF 3 MB, December 1930)
• Papers on the North American Fur Trade (PDF 6 MB, Winter 1966)
• Robert Dickson, The Fur Trade, and The Minnesota Boundary (PDF 636 KB, December 1925)
• A Skilled Game of Exchange: Ojibway Fur Trade Protocol (PDF 5 MB, Summer 1987)