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The white man's gonna getcha : the colonial challenge to the Crees in Quebec / Toby Morantz

Author
Morantz, Toby Elaine, 1943-
Published
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction: marking the trails -- James Bay at the end of the nineteenth century -- The powers of religion: Christianity extends the limits -- Coping with changes on the land -- A new technological and bureaucratic world: the confiscation of the land -- Pale versions of southern institutions -- Conclusion: despite government domination, the Crees weave their own tapestry -- Epilogue: a new order.
Summary
"In The White Man's Gonna Getcha Toby Morantz examines threats to the cultural and economic independence of the Crees in eastern James Bay. She argues that while their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fur-trading relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company had been mutually beneficial, Canada's twentieth-century interest in administering its outlying isolated regions actually posed the greatest challenge to the Cree way of life." "Drawing heavily on oral testimonies recorded by anthropologists in addition to eye-witness and archival sources, Morantz incorporates the Crees' own views, interests, and responses. She shows how their strong ties to the land and their appreciation of the wisdom of their way of life, coupled with the ineptness and excessive frugality of the Canadian bureaucracy, allowed them to escape the worst effects of colonialism. Despite becoming increasingly politically and economically dominated by Canadian society, the Crees succeeded in staving off cultural subjugation. They were able to face the massive hydroelectric development of the 1970s with their language, practices, and values intact and succeeded in negotiating a modern treaty."--Jacket
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9780773569676 (electronic bk.)
0773569677 (electronic bk.)
1282859676
9781282859678
9786612859670
6612859679
9780773522992
0773522999
9780773522701
0773522700
9780773522725
0773522727
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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