Ellen Smallboy Grade Seven-Eight Eugenie Mercredi

Eugenie Mercredi

It provides a framework for environmental inquiry shaped by students’ questions and theories – their natural curiosity – as they explore their environment

the ôBended Elbowö standoff at Kenora

These images show family in front of their log home

the Medicine Wheel

Ellen Smallboy Grade Seven-Eight Eugenie MercrediEllen Smallboy's life spanned a period of immense change among the Cree of northern Ontario. Born in about 1853 near James Bay, for most of her lifetime Smallboy led a traditional life that revolved around seasonal hunting. By the time she was an old woman, however, Cree lifestyle and culture were undergoing dramatic changes. Regina Flannery draws on her meetings with Smallboy, then aged eighty, to produce a detailed picture of her life during both