Note 238 — Chapter II · HUNTERS AND FISHERS.

4º. Trade and industry. The Montagnais, in Le Jeune’s time, bought maize from the Hurons for elk-skins238. The Algonquins, according to the same writer, used to sell furs to the French239. The Blackfeet tribes sold peltries which they procured in the Northern part of their country240. Jones calls the Kutcha Kutchin traders: “they make very little for themselves, but buy from the other Indians.” And Hardisty tells us, that they live by trading; they exchange beads, which are their circulating medium, for the peltries of other tribes241. The Osages, too, carried on the fur-trade in Hunter’s time242.