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Chahkabesh finds tracks leading up a hill and wonders what animals are making them. When he tells his sister, she warns him that those are the animals that killed their parents and made them orphans, ...
Chahkabesh hears a strange sound and his sister tells him that he heard the giant women collecting wood in the morning. He promises his sister never to go back but the next day he returns to where he ...
Chahkabesh makes giant girl laugh by sticking out his genitals until their mother spots him and puts him in a boiling pot of beaver. He eats the beaver and escapes.
After hunting one day, Chahkabesh's sister tells him to get snow from outside but warns him not to look up at the moon. Soon, however, he looks up at the moon and stares at it as hard as he can and ...
When Chahkabesh shoots an arrow at a bird and misses, it lands in the lake. He is too afraid to retrieve it, however, because of the strange creatures creating ripples on the surface. He tells his ...
Chahkabesh asks his big sister about the fins he saw breaking out of the water of the lake and she warns him never to go into that water because there are giant fish who can swallow him. Chahkabesh doesn't ...
When Chahkabesh wants to go hunt near the lake where the big fish live, his sister tells him to be careful not to lose his arrow in the lake or he'll be swallowed by the giant fish. Chahkabesh doesn't ...
Chahkabesh finds what appears to be a blazed trail and wishes to set snares to trap whatever caused it but his sister forbids it because that region is where the sun walks when it rises in the morning. ...
One day, as Chahkabesh is looking for sustenance, he sees a trail over a ridge. He wants to know who created the trail and so he lays a snare. He returns home and forgets about it until the next morning ...
Memishoosh the conjuror adopts young orphan boys, raises them to be his sons-in-law, and then routinely kills them off. One of them, however, was also a conjuror and saves himself from Memishoosh' ...
Long ago the land we know as Canada was empty. People lived in another land, up yonder. An unseen voice asked a man and a woman, if they would like to go to this another land down below. They agreed ...
James Bay is salty because, when the wolverine wanted to attend Weesahkwechahk's feast, a skunk repelled him with its spray and the wolverine had to wash it off in the bay
Description: A Catholic priest with a Cree boy and girl.
Tags Summer, Children, Boy, Girl, European, Missionaries & Children, Moose, Factory
Description: A Cree woman in traditional shawl leaves the teepee with a child during the winter.
Tags Winter, Woman, Family, Boy, Shawls, Traditional, Teepees, Everyday Life, Moose Factory
Description: Three young Cree women. Possibly visiting a local teacher, priest, store manager or doctor in Moose Factory, ON.
Tags Winter, Boy, Woman, Man, European, Moose Factory
Description: The church missionaries baptized and confirmed many Cree people in Moose Factory, ON. Christianity played an important role in everyone's life in James Bay.
Tags Boy, Girl, Missionaries ...
