Book
The Swampy Cree: a study in acculturation
Queen's Printer • (13) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 75
By: Mason, Leonard.
Abstract
This document attempts to show the effect of acculturation upon a few institutions of the Cree where history has provided sufficient data with which to follow their story. In general, Cree acculturation has been characterized by an ebb and flow of white contacts, peaks of frenzied activity in the fur trade, and ecological limitation on attainment of new living standards in the twentieth century. Mission and government created some problems for the Cree in introduced innovations. The same agencies also became the primary basis of support for Cree Indians when the profitable fur trade declined. Although important areas of local culture were abandoned in the process, many traditional values remained viable, as manifested in religious belief, in the attitudes about community authority, and in an identification with the life of the land, i.e., animals, fish, and plants, which even in 1940 [during the author's fieldwork] , were utilized to a great extent for food and medicine as in the 'Golden Age' of their aboriginal ancestors (p. xi).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- 1938, 1940
- Coverage Date
- 1611-1940
- Coverage Place
- Oxford House Band, Swampy Cree, Manitoba, Canada
- Notes
- by Leonard Mason
- Cover title
- Summary in French and English
- Includes bibliographical references (p.71-75)
- LCCN
- 67108723
- LCSH
- Cree Indians--Social life and customs/Acculturation