Promised LANDS.

Unlike most Cree people her age, Maggie did not attend the residential school and instead learned the skills of Cree womanhood from her mother in Mistissini. ABEL BOSUM AND I SIT on a bench beside the shaptuan, an oblong Cree structure that stands roughly at the centre of the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree Nation's administrative buildings. Mining and logging (left and above) in the area are largely responsible for the repeated relocations of the local Cree, such as Cynthia and Maggie Wapachee (top left) who still live outside Oujé-Bougoumou (top right). ABEL BOSUM, GRAND CHIEF of the Grand Council of the Crees, plants his dress shoes where his parents' house once sat on a thin wooded spit that curls into Doré Lake like a dog's tongue into a bowl of water. [Extracted from the article]