... Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., illustrations, foreword to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. $20.00 paper...

..., Pedlars, and Englishmen East of Lake Winnipeg,1760-1821. Winnipeg, MB: Rupert's Land Research Centre. Mandelbaum, David G. 1976 Social Uses of Funeral Rites. In Death and Identity. Robert Fulton, ed. Pp. 344 -63. Bowie, MD: Charles. 1979 The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic,Historical...

...George Colpitts Abstract Before mass settlement occurred in Western Canada at the turn of the twentieth century, Indigenous people used treaty monetization and town spending to subvert the very forces of liberalism encouraged with the expansion of a colonial market economy. After 1880, the Cree...

... University Press. Book Reviews 191 The White Man’s Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec. By Toby Morantz. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. xxviii + 372 pp., preface, author’s note, epilogue, appendices, sub...

...Nathan D. Carlson An ethnohistorical examination of the Algonquian witiko (windigo) phenomenon, utilizing both previously unexamined documentary sources and oral traditions of Athabasca Cree and Métis elders, reveals that a witiko “condition” is historically verifiable, that the celebrated...

... responded to the windigo, as colonial authorities created narratives around this disorder designed to increase their control over Cree and Ojibwa communities. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Spirit Beings, Mental Illness, and Murder: Fur Traders and the Windigo in Canada’s Boreal Forest...

...-making served to create and reinforce culturally constructed intercommunity identities. These identities proved fluid enough to incorporate sometime rivals (the Crees and Yellowknives) as well as new trading partners (Hudson's Bay Company employees) while still excluding cultural others (the Inuit...

... to the tapestry of Native North America but also provides insight into a conflict between the Anishinaabeg, Nêhiyawak (Crees), Nakoda (Assiniboines), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Dakota, Yankton, Yanktonai, and Lakota) that took place in the borderlands between Lake Superior and the Upper Missouri Valley. Ultimately...

... of the two Anglo nation-states dominating the region and conventional histories assume that a half-dozen or so self-aware, bounded indigenous nations lived, and live, in the region: Blackfoot, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Cree, Saulteaux, Sioux (Lakota, Dakota, Nakoda), and Métis. Treaties and the creation...

... are understood to invoke the equivalent of a biological relationship. Anthropologist Richard J. Preston observed of the eastern Cree that it was normal for two or three groups of relatives or close friends to share a residence, travel together, and coordinate hunting activi- ties.12 Similarly...

... publication is a welcome and compelling selection of articles (some previously published, some unpublished) that focus on the stories of Cree, Ojibwe and Métis peoples, Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Company fur traders, Methodist and Anglican missionaries, and twentieth-century anthropologists. The articles...

...., illustra- tions, preface, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $70.00 cloth.) David J. Silverman, George Washington University Gifts from the Thunder Beings is a crisply written and brilliantly executed comparison of bow-and-arrow and firearms technology primarily among the Cree...

... of the Great Lakes basin; and Crees living in the woodlands to the north.8 Farther north the voyageurs met subarctic and arctic groups (Dene and Inuit), and to the south they encountered Siouian-speaking peoples, such as Assiniboines and Lakotas. Stories and songs dominated voyageurs’ discourse. When...

...].) 2001 Book Reviews 6326 Ethnohistory 48:1/2 / sheet 361 of 384 Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp...

... Ethnohistory 48:1/2 / sheet 361 of 384 Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., illustrations, foreword to the series...

... Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., illustrations, foreword to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. $20.00 paper...

... Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., illustrations, foreword to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. $20.00 paper...

... Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., illustrations, foreword to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. $20.00 paper...

..., illustrations, maps, conclusion, bibliography,index. $55.00 cloth.) 2001 Book Reviews 6326 Ethnohistory 48:1/2 / sheet 361 of 384 Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen...

... Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So- ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. xii + 148 pp., illustrations, foreword to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. $20.00 paper...