{"id":10693,"date":"2014-10-21T17:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=10693"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:47:05","slug":"beastly-histories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/shannon-lecture\/shannon-lectures-history-2014\/beastly-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastly Histories November 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Beastly Histories November 7\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft wp-image-10588 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Buffalo-Meat-Drying-White-Horse-Plains-Red-River1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo Meat Drying, White Horse Plains, Red River[1] copy\" class=\"wp-image-10588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Buffalo-Meat-Drying-White-Horse-Plains-Red-River1-copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Buffalo-Meat-Drying-White-Horse-Plains-Red-River1-copy-160x114.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Buffalo-Meat-Drying-White-Horse-Plains-Red-River1-copy-240x171.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Buffalo-Meat-Drying-White-Horse-Plains-Red-River1-copy-400x284.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Buffalo-Meat-Drying-White-Horse-Plains-Red-River1-copy-360x256.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cBuffalo Meat Drying, White Horse Plains, Red River,\u201d painted by William Armstrong fonds, 1899. Library and Archives Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"beastly-histories\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beastly Histories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"george-colpitts-a-sumptuous-and-movable-feast-bison-pemmican-and-the-sating-of-society-in-the-northern-great-plains-1780-1870\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>George Colpitts:&nbsp; A sumptuous and movable feast: Bison, pemmican and the sating of society in the Northern Great Plains, 1780-1870<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>November 7, 2014 Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall, from 1:00-2:30 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food mattered in the fur trade. It fueled the heavy labour of canoe and York boat brigades. As the fur trade expanded, traders regularly ran out of food. &nbsp;In the boreal forest and subarctic they frequently starved. By the 1780s, companies switched to the high fats and proteins offered in pemmican derived from the massive bison herds roaming the western plains. Establishing new food systems based on the bison to deliver food to brigades, plains posts themselves became transformed by the massive quantities of food on hand. Bison food and its exchange helped establish a distinctive plains fur trade society, &nbsp;laying the basis of an emerging trope of plenty.&nbsp;This lecture explores the place of bison in the food history of these posts where aboriginals and newcomers established distinctive traditions in food exchange, regales, feasts and feasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-10722 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/colpitts.jpeg\" alt=\"colpitts\" class=\"wp-image-10722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/colpitts.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/colpitts-160x213.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">George Colpitts is an associate professor of history at the University of Calgary, teaching environmental history. His book, North America\u2019s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850 was published in 2014 by Brill, Leiden. His book, Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade and the Last Bison Hunts on the Northwestern Plains, 1780-1870, will be published by Cambridge University Press in Fall 2014. He is the author of Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 (UBC Press, 2002)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Shannon Lectures in History<\/strong> is a series of thematically linked public lectures offered annually at Carleton University made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major anonymous gift from a friend of the Department of History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beastly Histories George Colpitts:&nbsp; A sumptuous and movable feast: Bison, pemmican and the sating of society in the Northern Great Plains, 1780-1870 November 7, 2014 Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall, from 1:00-2:30 pm. Food mattered in the fur trade. It fueled the heavy labour of canoe and York boat brigades. 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