The white man's gonna getcha
Subtitle: the colonial challenge to the Crees in Quebec
By: Toby Morantz.
Series: McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;; 30
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Cree Indians -- James Bay Region -- History.; Cree Indians -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- History.; Cree Indians -- James Bay Region -- Government relations.; Cree Indians -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- Government relations.; Cris (Indiens) -- James, Région de la baie -- Histoire.; Cris (Indiens) -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- Histoire.; Cris (Indiens) -- James, Région de la baie -- Relations avec l'État.; Cris (Indiens) -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- Relations avec l'État.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.