In the winter of 1783, officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company, a powerful British trade organization, crossed the Atlantic on the American ship Carolina. As they talked together on the upper deck ...

400-year-old European beads reveal Native American trade networks had “extensive reach” and predated first explorers, study says.

In 1795, a fur trading post was built, known as the first white man's establishment, on the Sheboygan River near Sheboygan Falls. That was only 12 years after the close of the Revolutionary War .

People representative of both groups — the métis and the Métis Nation — were involved in the fur trade era in pre-territorial Minnesota and around the Great Lakes.

Myra and Johanna spend time guiding participants through one digital lesson about the early years of the fur trade in New York City, which provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other ...

Initiated ordinance 308, the “Denver fur ban,” has sparked debate about tradition, culture and heritage.While the measure aims to end the cruel practice of killing animals for their fur ...

For the past three months, an Oneida Nation sculptor who goes by "Jason", has been hand crafting an authentic dugout canoe from a centuries-old tree in the Fur Trade area of Heritage Hill.