Cree

Arctic People Galleries

Portrait of a Cree trapper, Abel Brien, on an autumn hunting trip. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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An aerial view of the Cree village of Mistissini, James Bay, Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Elizabeth Brien, a Cree woman laying spruce twigs on the tent floor at a bush camp. Mistissini, Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, preparing a beaver for a family feast. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Abel Brien, a Cree hunter, breaks the ice on a frozen lake with his boat. Northern Quebec. Canada. 1988
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A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, holding a beaver skin stretched out on a frame to dry. North Quebec, Canada. 1988
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The light from a kerosene lamp illuminates a Cree winter tent in boreal forest near Lake Bournot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Portrait of Elizabeth Brien, a Cree woman from Mistissini. North Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree trappers return from a fishing trip on Lake Bourinot,Northern Quebec, Canada. (1988)
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A Cree boy, Johnny, peeps through the tent door at a camp on the banks of Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, picking cranberries near her camp in the autumn. Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Elizabeth Brien,a Cree woman, threads caribou hide lacing onto a pair of snowshoes. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Johnny Brien,a Cree boy is given a bath in an oil drum at a bush camp by his grandmother, Elizabeth Brien. Northern Quebec. Canada. 1988
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Billy Edwards, an elderly Cree in snowshoes, hauling a birchwood sled over a frozen lake. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Sam Edwards,a Cree trapper, checks a fish net he has set under the ice of a frozen lake. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Abel Brien, a Cree trapper and his wife, Elizabeth, with pelts fom their autumn catch of Pine Martens,at Lake Bourinot, Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Sam Edwards, a Cree trapper, scraping a caribou skin pegged out to dry at a winter camp. Northern Quebec, Canada.1988
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Abel Brien, a Cree hunter standing by beaver skins stretched onto frames to dry at Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Canoes in front of a lakeside house at the Cree village of Chisasibe, Quebec, Canada. 1988
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A small Cree boy holds his father's wooden canoe on a hunting trip. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree hunter, Josie Sam-Atkinson, and his grandson Tommy Sam set out on an autumn goose hunt. James Bay. Northern Quebec. Canada. 1988
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Cree Indians leaving in their boats for a goose hunt. Quebec. Canada. 1988
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Cree hunters meet up in canoes to discuss tactics on an autumn goose hunt in James Bay, N.Quebec, Canada. 1988
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James (Jimmy) Rupert, a Cree hunter, shooting geese in the autumn. James Bay. Quebec, Canada. 1988
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James (Jimmy) Rupert, a Cree hunter carrying geese that he has shot in the autumn. James Bay. Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree Trapper, Abel Brien paddles his canoe while out hunting in the autumn. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree trapper Abel Brien and his wife, Elizabeth, check their fish nets on Lake Bourinot, Quebec, Canada. (1988)
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A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, preparing to smoke white fish on racks at a camp by Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree hunter, Abel Brien, walking beside a frozen lake as he checks his traps near Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Abel Brien, a Cree hunter, carries his grandson Johnny while portaging between two lakes. Northern Quebec. Canada. 1988
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Abel Brien, a Cree hunter with a caribou he has shot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, cuts fur from a caribou skin that will be used for snowshoes. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Elizabeth Brien, sets a pan of water to boil over a wood fire at her winter camp near Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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Elizabeth Brien, a Cree woman chops firewood at the family's winter camp at Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988
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The Brien Cree family watch supplies arrive in a small Cessna Stationair plane on skiis which landed on the ice of lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec. Canada. 1988
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Johnny Schecapio teaching Cree school children to make snow shoesn in Mistissini. Quebec. Canada. 1988
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