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Description: Traditional tikinagans were used to secure babies as women carried them on their backs while they went about their daily work of washing clothes, cutting wood or gathering boughs for the teepee ...
Description: Cree Elders, men, women and children with a priest pose for a photo. By the 1940s, the Catholic Church and religion was much incorporated into Cree life and followed by many western James ...
Description: A group of Cree people posing with a southern politician visiting Moosonee in 1947.
Tags Summer, Tikinagans, Groups of People, Children, European, Moosonee
Description: A group of men beside the train pose for a photo at the Onakawana lignite site located along the route north to Moosonee. Lignite was a resource the Ontario government contemplated removing ...
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, ...
... discipline and respect for the missionaries, many Christian missions would not have survived or developed to extent that they did.
Tags Summer, Construction, Tikinagans, Man, Groups of People, European ...
Description: Cree women in traditional shawls in front of a tent with a church in the background. Two babies are in tikinagans, a traditional Cree method of carrying very young babies to keep them warm ...
Description: A Cree family traveling by canoe along the coast of James Bay. Two Cree women in traditional shawls sit in the front. Sometimes a sail was erected in the canoe using a pole and tarp to use ...
... enclosed grounds of a backyard, church mission or a HBC fort. Cree people often set up their teepees either near the Church or HBC compounds.
Tags Summer, Groups of People, Man, Tikinagans, European, ...
