Peter Chartier
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Peter Chartier was a fur trader of mixed Shawnee and French parentage. Known in Shawnee as Wacanackshina, he later became a leader and a band chief among the Pekowi Shawnee. As an early advocate for N
Historical marker in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, commemorating the life of Peter Chartier's father, Martin Chartier.
1722 woodcut of Native Americans with various western goods that they received in trade for furs.
Fur traders doing business with Native Americans in 1777, with a barrel of rum to the left.
Conference between French and Native American leaders around 1750, by Émile Louis Vernier
Alcohol and Native Americans
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Many Native Americans in the United States have been harmed by, or become addicted to, drinking alcohol. Among contemporary Native Americans and Alaska Natives, 11.7% of all deaths are related to alco
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Aztecs depicted in the Codex Magliabechiano (folio 85r) drinking pulque on the feast of Quecholli. In the center, the god Mixcoatl drinks from a jug using a straw. To the left, a woman vomits.
The making of pulque, as illustrated in the Florentine Codex (Book 1 Appendix, fo.40)
Two young Chemehuevi Native girls making an alcoholic drink from mesquite beans, taken by Charles C. Pierce, ca. 1900