From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Aboriginals: Algonquians/ Subarctic/Joan A. Lovisek
The Subarctic Algonquians are the subject of continuing scholarship, and so current information on them is scattered through many publications including Ethnohistory, Papers of the Algonquian Conference, Native Studies Review, and Canadian Journal of Native Studies. The Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 6, Subarctic, edited by June Helm (Washington, D.C., 1981), is a comprehensive treatment of all Subarctic Algonquians. James B. Waldram, Ann Herring, and T. Kue Young, Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives (Toronto, 1995), reports the results of intensive research into the physiological, spiritual, historical, cultural, and environmental factors affecting several aboriginal peoples, including the Subarctic Algonquians.
Frank Speck, Nascapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula (1935; repr. Norman, Okla., 1977), is a pioneering work on the Innu, while Georg Henriksen, Hunters in the Barrens: The Nascapi on the Edge of the White Man’s World, (St John’s, 1973), explores the Innu from anthropological and historical perspectives. A contemporary view of the Innu is provided in Cathy Kurelek’s article “Anthropological Participatory Research among the Innu of Labrador,” Native Studies Review, vol.8, no.2 (1992), 75–97, which offers insight into the role of Innu women and the problems in obtaining reliable research information on the Innu.
Daniel Francis and Toby Morantz, Partners in Furs: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay, 1600–1870 (Montreal, 1989), explores the role of the James Bay Cree in the early fur trade. Richard J. Preston, Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meaning of Texts (Ottawa, 1975), is a study of the fundamental bases of the Cree worldview. Richard F. Salisbury, A Homeland for the Cree: Regional Development in James Bay (Montreal, 1986), examines the impact of contemporary development on James Bay Cree communities.
Edward S. Rogers, The Round Lake Ojibwa (Toronto, 1962), is the classic anthropological text on the Northern Ojibwa. Irving Hallowell, The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography into History, ed. Jennifer Brown (Fort Worth, Tx., 1992), is a comprehensive anthropological study of the Saulteaux. Laura Peers, The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870 (Winnipeg, 1994), sketches the complex history of the western Saulteaux. John Tanner, The Falcon (New York, 1994), interprets Saulteaux culture and history from the point of view of a captive who was raised by the Saulteaux in the early nineteenth century, while William W. Warren, History of the Ojibway People (1885; repr. St Paul, Minn., 1984), provides a history of the Saulteaux based on interviews conducted in the 1850s. Tim E. Holzkamm, Victor P. Lytwyn, and Leo
G. Waisberg, “Rainy River Sturgeon: An Ojibway Resource in the Fur Trade Economy,” Canadian Geographer, vol.32, no.3 (1988), 194–205, documents the historical importance of the sturgeon fishery to the development of the Saulteaux in the Rainy River region.
James G.E. Smith, “The Western Woods Cree: Anthropological Myth and Historical Reality,” American Ethnologist, vol.14, no.3 (1987), 434–48, investigates the historical dynamics concerning the identification of the Western Woodland Cree and their territorial movements. Robert A. Brightman, Grateful Prey: Rock Cree HumanAnimal Relationships (Berkeley, Calif., 1993), investigates the interconnections among Western Woodland Cree beliefs through a focus on the complexities of Cree–animal relationships.
