@article {9803,
	title = {The Use of Fur Trade Goods by the Plains Indians, Central and Southern Alberta, Canada},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {21},
	year = {1997},
	pages = {045-084},
	abstract = {<p>This paper examines the rate that Native people adopted European goods in southern and central Alberta during the Protohistoric and Historic Periods. Using the historic documentary and archaeological evidence from Alberta, the degree of use of European goods by Plains Indians during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was re-considered. The results indicate that Alberta Plains Indians, living in the \&$\#$39;Indirect\&$\#$39; trade zone, retained much of their traditional material culture and acquired relatively few European goods during the Protohistoric Period. With the permanent establishment of fur trade posts in Alberta, Native peoples gradually acquired more European goods. These results are contrary to Ray\&$\#$39;s (1978) model that suggests extensive Cree and Assiniboine Middleman trade of used European goods to Alberta Plains Indians during the Protohistoric Period.</p>},
	author = {Heinz W. Pyszczyk}
}
