Description: Older experienced men, middle-aged men and young boys often worked along side the Catholic priests in construction and repairing of buildings. Without local Cree physical labour, workmanship, ...

Description: An adult and young boy play checkers on a board beside a teepee. Checkers was a popular game played by all Crees on the coastal communities. Tags Man, Children, European, Teepee

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 ...

Description: A priest or mission worker leading harnessed cows pulling a load of hay with Cree boys and Cree women dressed in traditional shawls, some with pitch forks. Tags Summer, Farming, Groups ...

... the signing of the Treaty, that some of these promises have been forgotten” (ibid). At Fort Hope, Chief Moonias, concerning the benefit of money to his people said, "Ever since I was a little boy I ...

... 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 ...