A Review of the James Bay Cree Income Security Programs Under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.

• Main Author: Feit, Harvey A.
• Other Authors: Anthropology
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 1984
• Subjects: Income Security; Subsistence Economy Adaptability; Market Disruptions; Recruitment and Economic Confidence; Social Assistance Impacts; Negotiating Social Programs; Development Impacts; James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement; Yellowknife; James Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23946

This report draws heavily on the research done from 1978 to 1982 with Colin Scott on the impacts of the Cree Income Security Program. Those results were published in interim documents and in a final report in 1992. That detailed report included a focus on modifications needed to the Cree program. This 1984 report was prepared for the Dene-Metis Negotiations Secretariat in Yellowknife, and it focused on the the possibility of their negotiations for income security programs (ISPs), including materials on the contexts of the Cree negotiations, and various options and considerations for negotiating ISPs. The 1992 report is: Scott, Colin H. and Harvey A. Feit. 1992. Income Security for Cree Hunters: Ecological, Social and Economic Effects. Montreal: McGill University, Programme in the Anthropology of Development (PAD), Monograph Series. Pp. 448. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23918. The mandate for this report was to critically review all aspects of the James Bay Income Security Program and the Cree Trappers Association Programs, including their objectives, structure, implementation, control and funding, with particular attention to short­comings and possible improvements. A variety of objectives were explicitly or implicitly sought by those involved in the negotiation and implementation of the Income Security (ISP) and Cree Trappers Association (CTA) Programs. Among the Cree objectives were: to enhance Cree hunting culture and activities, and help assure their future continuance; to provide the cash incomes required by hunters in order to pursue their present and future activities; to help insulate the hunting economy from changes in market conditions, including commercial fur prices and changes in the availability of jobs and government assistance payments; to enhance hunters' confidence in the future of hunting by creating more stable conditions; to provide cash resources in a form which left recipients free to dispose of incomes as they determined, and thereby to enhance their ability to modify and ...