Strangers in BloodFor two centuries (1670 1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyages the myriad waterways of Ruperts Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudsons Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomers survival and success. With acquaintance and alliance came intermarriage, and the unions of European traders and Native