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The land on which the Snake River Fur Post was constructed in 1804 was, and still is, Ojibwe homeland. The Ojibwe called the river Ginebig-ziibi. When the North West Company built a post there in 1804, they expanded a global trading system between the Upper Mississippi region and Europe.

The Ojibwe people

Native nations and the newcomers

The fur trade

Great Lakes indigenous people and the French

Gift-giving practices

The British era

Confronting the Americans

The fur post at Ginebig-ziibi (Snake River)