| Marxism message, Re: Love and Proyect (1446 words) |
 | Matonabbee was a full-time worker for the Hudson's Bay Company, and he and the men in his gang were not only occasionally abusive toward women, but also robbed and even killed some of the people they encountered on their trip. |
| The behaviour of Matonabbee and his men, robbing and killing some people, although trading fairly, even generously, with others, was apparently not governed by cultural tradition as much as by what was most profitable, given the exigencies of the role they had taken on as middlemen in the fur trade. |
| Matonabbee and his gang, caught in a bind between a company that was driving as hard a bargain as it could and people with whom they traditionally expected to share freely, sometimes acted with a violence that characterized colonial frontier life in general. |
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