Voices from Hudson Bay: Cree Stories from York Factory, Second Edition (Rupert’s Land Record Society Series)

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In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the day by day lives and experiences of the women and men who lived and worked on the Hudson’s Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of circle of relatives, community, and day by day life, define their past and provide insights into an approach to life that has in large part disappeared in northern Canada. 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 Indigenous 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. Regardless of these upheavals, the elders’ accounts demonstrate the continuity of northern life in the twentieth century, from the persistence of traditional how you can the ongoing role of community and kinship ties. Perceptions of Cree life have been shaped in large part by non-Native accounts that offered limited views of Indigenous history and recorded little beyond the social and economic interaction that was once a part of life in the fur trade. The stories in this collection provide Cree perspectives on northern life and history, and represent a legacy bequeathed to a younger generation of Indigenous people. This second edition includes updates to the original text and a new preface.

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