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Indian debt book

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the ledger in which debt (def. 1) was recorded together with furs and other payments credited against that debt.

See: debt(def. 1)

Quotations

1913

In the Indian debt book every article had to be strictly itemized, whether debtor or creditor. . . .

1934

Then followed three days of . . . looking over the Indian Debt Book and holding counsel with the Slavey hunters in the dim light of candles for, as we neared the Arctic Circle, the hours of daylight became very short indeed.