These photos take you back to Cree life in the western James Bay area at the time of Treaty No. 9. They are from the huge collection at the Archives Deschâtelets at St. Paul University, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. If you are a young James Bay Cree, you might see your great-grandparents when they were your age.
Evidence that Cree men may not have been just labourers or deck hands aboard sailboats or schooners. In this photo, a Cree man intently concentrates while steering a vessel.