Table of Contents

Foreword: Dignity and Power / Graeme Wynn

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Why James Bay?

2 Imagining the Land

3 Inland Engagement

4 Christians and Cree

5 Marginal Existences

6 Management and Moral Economy

7 Flooding the Garden

8 Conclusion: Journeys of Wellness, Walks of the Heart

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

Carlson renders the arc of Cree history intelligible to outsiders and makes it relevant to the people living east of James Bay today. His is an original, and much-needed, synthesis … that offers new insight into and understanding of the region and its people. – Graeme Wynn

About the Author

Hans M. Carlson has travelled extensively in northern Quebec and Labrador by canoe and snowshoe. He is currently teaching in the American Indian Studies program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Reviews

It is the question and power of narratives on which Carlson’s book turns. His study is thick with a multitude of them, and he seamlessly blends different narratives within each chapter, usually setting up his own interpretation against the dominant ones. He is particularly concerned with the interplay of culture and environment that often gets downplayed or ignored entirely in other studies. […] Carlson does more than write the Cree into our narrative; he pens a Cree-centered narrative that writes newcomers into it, and it is this aspect of Carlson’s book that is the most compelling. […] Home Is the Hunter is an excellent study of human and environmental relationships. […] Anyone with a minimal understanding of this place and these people should read this book, if only to see where their narratives fit in with others and to gain a greater appreciation for the history of the Cree and for the potential dangers to which we all contribute by pulling resources from the periphery while at the same time imposing our outsider understandings over local ones.
*H-Canada*