This thesis studies how Native women make life choices and set goals for themselves, and what influences those choices. In Chisasibi, James Bay, young Cree women learn their roles and responsibilities--what is expected of them as women--at school, at home, in the bush and, most importantly, from the examples set for them by older women in the community. Cree women's descriptions and perceptions of their own lives, in their own words, forms the basis of the framework used here to analyze women's comments on their aspirations, expectations and obligations. The conclusions drawn here are first, that Cree women perceive the range of choices that they have to be determined by the scope of their responsibilities to their families and their community, and second, that young women are taught to expect to assume these social responsibilities too.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68105 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Jacobs, Susan |
| Contributors | Lambert, Carmen (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Anthropology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001403435, proquestno: AAIMM94355, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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