The white man's gonna getcha

By Toby Elaine Morantz

Subjects: Misandry, Cris (Indiens) -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- Histoire, Men in popular culture, Cris (Indiens) -- James, Région de la baie -- Relations avec l'État, Cris (Indiens) -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- Relations avec l'État, Identity, Histoire, Quebec (province), ethnic relations, Cree Indians -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- History, Cree Indians -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- Government relations, Cris (Indiens), Relations avec l'État, Indians of north america, government relations, Cree Indians, Indians of north america, history, History, Cris (Indiens) -- James, Région de la baie -- Histoire, Sex discrimination against men, Cree Indians -- James Bay Region -- History, Government relations, Cree Indians -- James Bay Region -- Government relations, Men, Indians of north america, canada

Description: "In The White Man's Gonna Getcha Toby Morantz examines threats to the cultural and economic independence of the Crees in eastern James Bay. She argues that while their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fur-trading relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company had been mutually beneficial, Canada's twentieth-century interest in administering its outlying isolated regions actually posed the greatest challenge to the Cree way of life.". "Drawing heavily on oral testimonies recorded by anthropologists in addition to eye-witness and archival sources, Morantz incorporates the Crees' own views, interests, and responses. She shows how their strong ties to the land and their appreciation of the wisdom of their way of life, coupled with the ineptness and excessive frugality of the Canadian bureaucracy, allowed them to escape the worst effects of colonialism. Despite becoming increasingly politically and economically dominated by Canadian society, the Crees succeeded in staving off cultural subjugation. They were able to face the massive hydroelectric development of the 1970s with their language, practices, and values intact and succeeded in negotiating a modern treaty."--BOOK JACKET.