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Title: | Income Security for Cree Hunters: Ecological, Social and Economic Effects. |
Authors: | Scott, Colin H. Feit, Harvey A. |
Department: | Anthropology |
Keywords: | Income Security;Cultural Continuity;Community Cohesion;Economic Livelihood;Environmental Conservation;Hunters;James Bay Cree;Self-governance |
Publication Date: | 1992 |
Publisher: | McGill University, Programme in the Anthropology of Development (PAD) |
Citation: | Scott, Colin H. and Harvey A. Feit. 1992. Income Security for Cree Hunters: Ecological, Social and Economic Effects. Montreal: McGill University, Programme in the Anthropology of Development (PAD), Monograph Series. Pp. 448. |
Series/Report no.: | Monograph Series; |
Abstract: | The Income Security Program for Cree Hunters and Trappers (ISP) established following the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA) in September 1976, is the first permanently established guaranteed income program in North America, and it has become the starting point for discussions and consideration of other specialized income support programs for Indigenous peoples throughout Canada, and in other countries. The present research examines the impacts of the program during its first two years of operation, it sets these effects within the context of the first dozen years of program operations, and it relates these findings to recent changes and future operation of the program, while keeping in mind the planning for the possible establishment of income support programs elsewhere. The effects of the program are also assessed in the light of the broad issues facing the future of James Bay Cree society, including the: continuity of Cree culture and related economic practices; social integration or fragmentation of communities; individual initiative and the need for expanded opportunities in subsistence production and wage labor; adequacy of levels of transfer payments; local economic and social development; conservation and management of wildlife resource populations; and expansion of Cree self-governance. - - Le Programme de sécurité du revenu des chasseurs et piégeurs cris (PSR) instauré suivant la Convention de la Baie-James et du Nord québécois en septembre 1976 est le premier programme de revenu garanti créé de façon permanente en Amérique du Nord et il est devenu un point de référence pour l'analyse et la planification d'autres programmes spécialisés de sécurité du revenu pour les peuples autochtones du Canada et d'autres pays. Le présent projet de recherche analyse les incidences que ce programme a eues au cours de ses deux premières années, il les situe dans le cadre des douze premières années de fonctionnement de ce type de programme et il établit une corrélation entre ces résultats et les récents changements intervenus et le fonctionnement futur du programme, tout en tenant compte de la planification et de la création éventuelle de programmes de sécurité du revenu ailleurs. Les effets de ce programme sont également évalués a la lumière des grands problèmes qui se rattachent a l'avenir de la société crie de la Baie James, notamment : la survie de la culture crie et des pratiques économiques qui s'y rattachent; l'intégration ou le morcellement social des communautés; les initiatives individuelles et la nécessité de possibilités plus nombreuses d'une production de subsistance et d'une main-d'œuvre salariée; la suffisance des niveaux de paiements de transfert; le développement économique et social local; la conservation et la gestion des ressources fauniques et l'élargissement de l'auto-détermination des Cris. |
Description: | The research was greatly facilitated by the support and generous assistance of the members and staff of the Cree Regional Authority, the Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec) and of the Cree Hunters and Trappers Income Security Board. In addition, the Councils and many people in each of the Cree communities assisted us, especially those at Wemindji and Waswanipi where our intensive research was conducted. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23918 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology Publications |
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