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Puen ae
fi "VAs I noted in chapter 1, the first significant evidence for intermarriage between th
Valley Nisenan occurred in 1841 with the baptism of three women from Pusune at Missior
the subsequent marriage o i alacomne
suggested in this chapter that working together at New Helvetia—{distance from Pusune]familiarity between the two groups as Plains Miwok men from rancherias further away
Pusune to work for and trade with Sutter. Jennifer Brown notes in her study of fur trae fu il
_ Isolation or semi-autonomy did not, however, necessarily mean that traders were immersed in
cultures and societies to the point that they lost social and cultural independence... a readily
phenomenon in the fur trade country, where traders maintained a marked degree of fe
distinctness from their Indian associates as well as from Europe." Jennifer S. H. ae ‘ahaabll
Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country (Vancouver: University of a
1980), xvii.
¥O-OF the women to Plains Miwok men from