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Description: Unidentified Cree couple sitting in front of traditional winter dwelling known as an Askiigan. The walls were made out birch or spruce logs and filled with moss to keep in the warmth. The ...
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: A Catholic service in Moosonee in 1948. The congregation is comprised of Cree women in traditional shawls and non-Cree people. Cree adults often took part in services as lay readers and ...
Description: A group of Cree adults and children during the early 1900s. The woman wears a traditional shawl worn by Cree women during this early period.
Tags Family, European, Moosonee
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: A winter hunting camp with the traditional teepee dwelling packed with snow around the base to keep heat inside. Spruce or Balsam boughs were placed on the ground inside the teepee for flooring ...
Description: A loader pulling a parade float with the traditional Shaaptwaan (long teepee-like structure) constructed on it that was used for cooking and could hold up to two to three families.
Tags Winter, ...
Description: Hunters or trappers at a cabin. A wooden box sled on the right was used to transport goods, people and pulled by the introduction snowmobiles. Snowmobiles began to replace the dog team and ...
Description: Two hunters or trappers on snowshoes pulling a traditional toboggan. Trappers used toboggans to transport the animal resources they trapped back to the camp such as beaver, marten, fox and ...
Description: Men and women constructing a summer teepee. First the poles are arranged in a circle with enough space for one family. After covering the teepee poles with tarp, spruce boughs will be collected ...
Description: A Christmas parade in downtown Moosonee.
Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Children, Groups of People, Family, European, Traditional, Celebrations, Moosonee
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: An unidentified young man wearing a feathered head dress.
Tags Man, Traditional
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: 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 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 ...
Description: Two men refuelling the tractor that pulls the sled train across the frozen land and ice to northern communities. One man facing the camera wears traditional Cree moccasins to keep out the ...
Description: A priest and two unidentified men skinning a small beluga or large seal as two Cree women dressed in hoods stand beside their teepee in the background. This activity takes place within the ...
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 ...
... of the challenges Aboriginal students faced in residential schools as they struggled to maintain their traditional way of life. Edmond Edwards describes having difficulty paying attention in class because ...
