• Main Authors: Sayles, Jesse S, Mulrennan, Monica E
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2010
• Subjects: adaptation; Cree; environmental change; flexibility; indigenous resource use; goose hunting; James Bay; landscape modification; resilience; resistance; Wemindji; James Bay
• Online Access: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art22/

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...