Women of the Fur Trade

Women of the Fur Trade is a play by written by Frances Koncan about the Métis-led Red River Resistance against European colonisers.

[2] It features three women who discuss their perspectives on the changing world around them, European influence, the fur trade and the Métis leader Louis Riel.

[1] The three characters are Métis women Marie-Angelique; an Ojibwe Manitoban trapper, Eugenia; and a European settler, Cecelia.

[2] The narration switches between 19th and 21st century language and perspectives, as the women talk about men, the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European settlers.

[2] Ian Ross of the Winnipeg Free Press described the play as "a timely, provocative piece of theatre written from a perspective and voice we need to hear.