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

• Published in: Ecology and Society
• Main Authors: Jesse S. Sayles, Monica E. Mulrennan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2010
• Subjects: adaptation; Cree; environmental change; flexibility; indigenous resource use; goose hunting; James Bay; landscape modification; resilience; resistance; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Wemindji
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03828-150422; https://doaj.org/article/316335800c0542a9bbcc2b2796e84ea9

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 paper exam...