Making a Living in the Bush: Land Tenure at Waskaganish
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To make a living in the bush, one must have both a knowledge of the land and the necessary skills. This essay illustrates game plans with which the Rupert House Cree make use of their trapping territories. Ideological and physical factors are reviewed to demonstrate how trapping territories are exploited through a variety of strategies that take into account the size and nature of the territory and the needs of individual trappers. The history of resource exploitation in the area is used to isolate factors crucial to changing Cree approaches to land use.
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