Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Grade Seven-Eight Food is meager and many

Food is meager and many times the children find carrots and apples to appease their hunger

with her friend Leslie

Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane

Hazel dreams of an old crow

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Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Grade Seven-Eight Food is meager and manyScott Berthelette is Red River Mtis, a member of the Manitoba Mtis Federation and author of Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Mtis in the Hudson Bay Watershed. The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.