Relocation and loss of homeland, the story of the Sayisi Dene of northern Manitoba

• Main Author: Petch, Virginia Phyllis.
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Indian; Little Duck Lake; Tadoule Lake; Churchill; Sayisi Dene
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1342

In 1956, the Sayisi Dene residing at Little Duck Lake in northern Manitoba were relocated to Churchill. The move nearly destroyed the cultural integrity of this small band of people who were still practicing a seasonal round comparable to that of their pre-European-contact ancestors. An ethnohistori...