Revitalizing Cree legal traditions: Cumberland House and Pelican Narrows
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2013-08-21
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Goulet, Trish
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This thesis examines original evidence of Cree legal traditions by carefully reconstructing the Cumberland House and Pelican Narrows Saskatchewan evidence from 1774 to present day.
Cree peoples in the area had a long history prior to contact with Europeans. At time of contact Indigenous people were in a position of power. They knew how to flourish in the prairies and taught the newcomers how to survive. This thesis explores questions including when does the loss of traditional law begin in the culture by examining the original Hudson’s Bay Company Post Journals that reveal evidence of pre-contact Cree laws and culture. There is also evidence in the HBC records of Cree legal traditions that survived and continued to be practiced.
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Cree, law, aboriginal, Cumberland House