No wilderness to plunder: Process thinking reveals Cree land‐use via the goose‐scape

• Published in: Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
• Main Author: Sayles, Jesse S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Baie James; Wemindji; First Nations; Premières Nations; Cris; James Bay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12201; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fcag.12201; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cag.12201

Using process thinking and an eye to movement, I argue that the Canadian First Nations people of Wemindji, James Bay, Quebec modify their environment much more than physical landscape measures show. Wemindji Cree live in a dynamic coastal setting where land rises up having been weighed down during t...