Killing the Shamen Cultural/Traditional Lifestyle Western and Aboriginal traditions

Western and Aboriginal traditions

Metis professor Jo-Ann Episkenew offers a highly readable analysis of the role of colonial governments in Canada and the policies that overtook the lives of First Nations

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Frances Nickawa

Killing the Shamen Cultural/Traditional Lifestyle Western and Aboriginal traditionsKilling the Shamen is the story of the Sandy Lake Cree of northwestern Ontario and their clash with the Canadian criminal justice system in 1907. Jack Fiddler, shaman and leader, together with his brother, Joseph Fiddler, were charged with murder in the death of a possessed woman who had become a windigo. The two men were taken to Norway House in Manitoba for trial. This compelling story is told through the words of several Cree Elders who in 1971