Interview · North Dakota · Vincent Grant Sr. · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 6
Themes: Culture & continuity, Economy & livelihoods
Learn About questions
What is a monopoly? What are some examples of present-day monopolies?
What is a free trapper?
How did monopolies affect the free trappers’ business?
Learn From questions
What does “ethics” mean to me?
In what ways has someone taken advantage of me based on a potential lack of ethics?
Does culture have any influence on a person’s ability to make ethical decisions? Explain.
What are some decisions I have made that may have affected those around me in a positive way? In a detrimental way?
Transcripts
06 Vincent Grant “Company Men and Free Trappers” NDNAEU 2 & 6
Watch this interview on YouTubeNow after they traded in a spring rendezvous autumn would get to drinking gambling and whatever else they lose all their money that did in furs that had worked all winter for snorting for them to go back out and trap again and hunt again the fur trade companies um okay well steak yes we’ll give you whatever you need to come your powder will give you a good lead and whatever you need to go back out but you still all your first to us that’s here so they would come the believer what was called company man if they trap the trap for that company and the one that wouldn’t make deals like that on their own they’ll call for free trappers he trapped wherever they wanted and sold to whoever they wanted to so the company’s kind of did have a monopoly there too you know what you’re gonna do he’s gonna stalk to them one of the two or shipping back to st.Louis but that’s a long haul just one canoe for at first that he traded forever he could
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