Western Woods Cree : NG08.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Areas Files, 2009-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=NG08
Subjects

Included WorkFisher, A. D. Cree of Canada.
Included WorkHallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974. Cross-cousin marriage in the Lake Winnipeg area.
Included WorkMason, Leonard, 1913-2005. Swampy Cree.
Included WorkMeyer, David (David A.). Time-depth of the Western Woods Cree occupation of Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
Included WorkSmith, James G. E. Culture summary, Western Woods Cree.
Included WorkSmith, James G. E. Western Woods Cree.
Included WorkSmith, James G. E. On the territorial distribution of the Western Woods Cree.
Included WorkSmith, James G. E. Western Woods Cree, anthropological myth and historical reality.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. North America. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Cree of Canada, some ecological and evolutionary considerations / A. D. Fisher -- Cross-cousin marriage in the Lake Winnipeg area / A. Irving Hallowell -- Swampy Cree / Leonard Mason -- Time-depth of the Western Woods Cree occupation of Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan / David Meyer -- Culture summary, Western Woods Cree / James G. E. Smith and John Beierle -- Western Woods Cree ; On the territorial distribution of the Western Woods Cree ; Western Woods Cree, anthropological myth and historical reality / James G. E. Smith.
Abstract This collection of eight documents is about the Western Woods Cree who lived aboriginally in the boreal forests from Hudson and James Bays westward to the Peace River in Canada. In the early twenty-first century they are found primarily in the region between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay. Mason provides an overview of the Western Woods Cree ethnography; Smith (1981) presents a brief summary of some of the major features of their ethnography dating from the seventeenth to the late twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the western Swampy and Rocky Cree populations. Two of the studies in this collection by Smith (1976, 1987) discuss and analyze the ethnological 'myth' dealing with the movement of the Western Woods Cree to the southwest areas at the time of the initial Euro-American contact. According to this belief French and English guns gave the Cree technological superiority over their neighbors to the west and southwest and permitted them to move easily into the conquered lands. Evidence for pottery making at the time of early Euro-American contacts is discussed by Meyer. Fisher describes the socio-cultural evolution of the hunting band discussed in terms of social, ecological, and historical variables within the society. Hallowell presents a study of cross-cousin marriage in relationship to the kinship system.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Mar. 29, 2010).
General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was first released in 2009.

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