VOICES FROM HUDSON BAY, Cree Stories from York Factory, Edited by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts (1997 1st Ed.)

Author: Various. Edited by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996 1st Edition, (1st Reprint 1997). Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light cover wear. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 158 pages includes index.  

BONUS #1: The original sticker is still on the back cover from Audreys Books, THE Iconic Bookstore in Edmonton, Alberta.

BONUS #2: The title page shows a hand-written phone number for one of the Editors, Robert Coutts, along with another name and phone number, but I don't know their connection.

VOICES FROM HUDSON BAY, Cree Stories from York Factory, Edited by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts, is filled with stories that provide Cree perspectives on northern life and history, and represent the legacy of a younger generation of aboriginal people.

The era the elders describe, from the end of World War I to the closing of York Factory in 1957, saw dramatic changes - both positive and negative - to aboriginal life in the North. The extension of Treaty 5 in 1910 to include members of the York Factory band, the arrival of police and government agents, and the shifting economy of the fur trade are all discussed. Despite these upheavals, however, the elders' accounts demonstrate the continuity of northern life in the twentieth century, from the persistence of traditional ways to the ongoing role of community and kinship ties. Perceptions of aboriginal life have been shaped largely by non-Native accounts that offer limited views of Swampy Cree history and record little beyond the social and economic interaction that was part of life in the fur trade. 

ISBN: 9780773514414  

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