Article: Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships.

Anthropologist Robert Brightman's search for a northern community where "indigenous religion was practiced rather than eulogized," where foraging prevailed over wage labour and where traditional culture is still alive rather than a memory landed him among the Rock Cree of northern Manitoba. What followed was an initiation into a way of life based on the belief that animals share human characteristics, that they spoke and interacted culturally long before humans did. Sometime in the distant past animals either abandoned or involuntarily lost their human physical and social characteristics and evolved into their current state. Bears alone retain some of the old powers, as ...

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