Cree

I read the book Canoeing With the Cree by Eric Sevareid. This book is about two young men named Eric Sevareid and Walter Port. These men were best friends in high school. They decided to seek an adventure that summer by doing something that has never been done before. This was the first time an all-water trip had ever been made from Minnesota to the North Atlantic Ocean. Their plan was to start in Minneapolis and go to York Factory at the Hudson Bay. They canoed up the Minnesota River and its…

Aboriginal chiefs have various unnecessary difficulties when making, even the simplest of, transactions, yet on occasion they are able to impose their sovereignty. On a similar note, in 1976, Manitoba Hydro started constructing a dam on Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation…

Ever since he was a child, Milo Thatch believed in Atlantis. He dedicates his life to the study and discovery of it, no matter who tells him it’s just a legend. When presented the Shepard’s Journal: a book of Atlantean history, language, and culture, Milo is ecstatic. The man who gives it to him, Preston Whitmore, says the book is gibberish and is most likely worthless. Milo responds with, “I've spent my whole life studying dead languages. It's not gibberish to me. If this were a fake, I…

“7 Generations: A Plain Cree Saga”, created by David Robertson and Scott Henderson, uses both illustration and writing to depict the different mental struggles of Indigenous peoples today, and how familial bonds can affect this. The graphic novel starts with an Indigenous man attempting suicide, and his mother rushing to find him. The story follows his mother, and eventually his father attempting to reach through to their suicidal son, the father using storytelling as a way to ask for…

Evidence of cultural preservation is hard to perceive in the daily life of an American, especially when being compared to The Cree. The Cree prioritize cultural preservation because it is essential to their survival. Before thirty years ago, Cree children were taught through cultural transmission or cultural learning rather than attending traditional schools like an American. They were taught respect for the land and “to survive by living in harmony with nature… to live off what the land and…

figure out relationship between Cree Law and Canadian Law” (Napoleon 27). Her statement highlights how the graphic novel puts into question on how Cree and Canadian should look or if both should co-exist at all in Canada. It is important to have a relationship between Cree and Canadian Law in order to acknowledge the rights of Aboriginals and allow natives to govern themselves with approval from the government.…

Week 1 Ch.1 Case Study: Firm, Fair and Open? Case Study Questions (see Case Study document for actual questions). 1. Cree is making a positive impression on the workers by following the four main functions of management – planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (Walker, 2012). Her suggestion of rotating work assignments should be viewed as fair to everyone and not favoring one group over another (e.g., more senior servers vs. new servers). 2. Many of Cree’s points are very good: giving…

describe Jason as courageous? Give reasons for your opinion. Yes, I would describe Jason as courageous because he risked his life knowing the consequences because he wanted to prove that he was Cree and can be a warrior. He knew that it was dangerous and he didn’t even have much knowledge about being a part of the Cree heritage but he already wanted to prove that he could become a warrior. He mainly did it because of the peer pressure and prove to Ralph that we was right when he knew he was…

another thing. Many cultures, such as that of the Cree people, depend on oral tradition to share most teachings. In the society we know today, various methods have risen allowing for a myriad of people to be exposed. One way that knowledge can be shared is through literature. The books My Tribe the Crees by Joseph Dion, and The Plains Cree by David Mandelbaum will be contrasted to effectivly demonstrate the credibility and accuracy of the portrayal of Cree culture through the individual…

instilled in the Cree a greed for furs that nearly wiped out the animals” (Boyden 90). The syntax and amount of detail used in the two passages, create a juxtaposition between the hunts: the description of Xavier and Elijah’s hunt is well developed, whereas the Company’s hunt is given one short but impactful sentence. Xavier’s hunt is described in positive words like “whooped” and natural words like “swaying” and “bark” to reinforce the Cree’s connection with nature. While the Cree have the…