this [being a woman of the bush] despite what everyone says about her and the toughness of her existence…” (Wylie 229). Niska is exposed to the horrors of the world at an early age, witnessing events such as her father’s murder of one of her fellow Cree gone windigo (Boyden 45). This coupled with her being used sexually by the Frenchman, who claimed to have “…fucked ahcahk, [her] spirit” (174), out of lustful capitalism creates a perfect storm of familiarity with the human condition within her. Niska
on par with the trading that the First Nations of North America were used to: The social repercussions on the coast were revolutionary. Surpluses of blankets and meal utensils soon arose as a result of the unprecedented amount of goods pouring into Indian hands. There was plenty to give away at potlatches, which became larger, more frequent, more competitive and more destructive of physical property. The carefully graduated scale of social rank began to disintegrate. (Driver,
seen as a key target in assimilation policies and agendas. Missionary William Duncan wrote in 1875 that the potlatch was “by far the most formidable of all obstacles in the way of Aboriginals becoming Christians, or even civilized. Thus in 1885, the Indian Act was revised to include clauses banning the potlatch and making it illegal to practice. The Aboriginal economic system was also subjugated and exploited by laws not allowing farmers to sell their produce unless it was for survival purposes.
graduating, Marius was awarded – as the first French-Canadian recipient – the Cecil Rhodes scholarship which allowed him to study at Oxford University where he was introduced to the emerging field of Anthropology. « Je [voulais] savoir comment l’homme a été créé » he later explained to Marcel Rioux. (Benoît 1959a) During his stay in Europe, Marius also attended classes at the Sorbonne’s École des Hautes Études and at the École
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