Securing a Future: Cree Hunters' Resistance and Flexibility to Environmental Changes, Wemindji, James Bay

• Main Authors: Sayles, Jesse S., Mulrennan, Monica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: adaptation; Cree (North American people); environmental change; indigenous institutions; landscape change; resilience; Social Organization; Canada; Wemindji; James Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10535/7441

"Accounts of the adaptive responses of northern aboriginal peoples include examples of purposive modification and management of ecologically favorable areas to increase resource productivity. Practices include clearing of trees, burning of berry patches and construction of fish weirs. This pape...