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Defending the land : sovereignty and forest life in James Bay Cree society / Ronald Niezen.
- Title
- Defending the land : sovereignty and forest life in James Bay Cree society / Ronald Niezen.
- Author
- Niezen, Ronald
- Publication
- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1998.
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| Text | Request in advance | E99.C88 N54 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 148 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The ethnographies in the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr., of Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide. Each title builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture.
- Series Statement
- Cultural Survival studies in ethnicity and change
- Uniform Title
- Cultural Survival studies in ethnicity and change
- Subjects
- Canada
- Politics
- Social Conditions
- Indians, North American
- Cris (Indiens) > Politique et gouvernement
- Cris (Indiens) > Relations avec l'État
- Cris (Indiens) > Conditions sociales
- James Bay Region > Politics and government
- James Bay Region > Social conditions
- Cree Indians > Politics and government
- Cree Indians > Government relations
- Cree Indians > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-148).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Living on the land -- 'Ownership' of the land -- Seasons on the land -- Forest spirituality -- Healing -- The origins of a dual lifestyle -- The fur trade -- Missions, medicine, and residential education -- Federal intervention -- Negotiated transformations -- Hydro-electricity and the goals of extractive industry -- The James Bay agreement -- Crisis and accommodation -- The social aftermath -- The pursuit of health care autonomy -- Redefining education -- Accommodation -- Struggles over sovereignty -- The James Bay project revisited -- Two sovereignties -- 'The spoilers'.
- ISBN
- 020527580X
- 9780205275809
- LCCN
- ^^^97228603^
- OCLC
- 37613714
- SCSB-11321615
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library