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Girl’s work at Residential school, by Anna Bella Solomon
Role of girls and women in Fort Albany by Marie Cecile Kamalatisit
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.
Hannah Loon recalls several childhood memories and traumas. For example, while taking care of her older sister's children, she witnessed her friend's mother set herself on fire and had to protect the ...
A father and son duo have killed and eaten other Indian families for 20 years until the son is set to marry a girl and his father confesses to what they've done. The new bride's brothers attack and kill ...
Description: A Catholic priest with a Cree boy and girl.
Tags Summer, Children, Boy, Girl, European, Missionaries & Children, Moose, Factory
... floor. Here three babies in traditional tikinagans take part in a church service.
Tags Winter, Tikinagans, Family, Girl, European, Missionaries & Children, Modern Houses, Church, Christmas, Moosonee ...
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 ...
Description: A Cree family at their winter teepee camp. A shove pipe can be seen at the top of the teepee. The woman and the girls wear the traditional shawl wrapped around their heads. A baby is secured ...
Description: Women gathered in a field in front of the local Church as two young female Cree girls eat bannock and drink tea in the foreground.
Tags Summer, Woman, Tikinagans, Children, Groups of People, ...
Description: A young child wearing the traditional rabbit fur coat and moccasins. Clothing made of rabbit fur were very warm.
Tags Girl, Traditional, rabbit skin coats
Description: A young girl in residential school, likely in Fort Albany, eats fry bread.
Tags Girl, Children, European
Description: Young Cree women, boys and girls in front of tent. One young boy holds a bow and arrow no longer used by Cree people with the introduction of the gun. By the early 1900s, most boys owned ...
... a great sickness. Both the parents died, both the father and the mother. One child died as well. Only a girl, a boy, and a baby survived. They were far from the reserve. They took the baby and started ...
