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Informationen zum Autor Hans M. Carlson has travelled extensively in northern Quebec and Labrador by canoe and snowshoe. He is currently teaching in the American Indian Studies program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Klappentext Carlson renders the arc of Cree history intelligible to outsiders and makes it relevant to the people living east of James Bay today. His is an original, and much-needed, synthesis, a story anchored in the records of newcomers, fur traders, missionaries, scientifi c explorers, and the work of twentieth-century scholars, that offers new insight into and understanding of the region and its people. -- from the Foreword by Graeme WynnThe James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of Quebec's massive development of hydroelectricity, timber, and mineral resources in the North.Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows. Hans Carlson shows how the Cree view their lands as their home, their garden, and their memory of themselves as a people. By investigating the Cree's relationship with the land and their three hundred years of contact with outsiders, the author illuminates the process of cultural negotiation at the foundation of ongoing political and environmental debates.This book is more than a story of dam building and industrial logging in northern Quebec. It offers a way of thinking about indigenous peoples' struggles for rights and environmental justice in Canada and elsewhere.Hans M. Carlson has travelled extensively in northern Quebec and Labrador by canoe and snowshoe. He is currently teaching in the American Indian Studies program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Zusammenfassung The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970! when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical! environmental! and cultural context from which this recent story grows. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Dignity and Power / Graeme WynnAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Why James Bay?2 Imagining the Land3 Inland Engagement4 Christians and Cree5 Marginal Existences6 Management and Moral Economy7 Flooding the Garden8 Conclusion: Journeys of Wellness, Walks of the HeartPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex...
