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The Trading Season

You’re helping an Anishinaabe family at the post on the Ottawa River, 1680Goal: the goods the family needs — without emptying the stream

Your family paddles to the post with 60 beaver pelts from the winter’s trapping. The trader has kettles, blankets, axes and cloth. The post counts in ‘made beaver’ — one prime pelt. Prices and yields are simulated; the roles are real.

sixty pelts in the canoe