Spatial and Spiritual Exile

Cat W.

This factsheet unpacks Neal McLeod's "Spatial and Spiritual Exile" by looking at the experiences of Neal's family. The factsheet looks at what colonization did to the Cree people and the ideas of exile in terms of being cut off both spirtually and spatially from their lands.

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References

McLeod, Neal. 2007. “Spatial and Spiritual Exile.” In Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times . Saskatoon, Sask.: Purich Publishing Limited, 2007. 54– 60

Source Authors

Neal McLeod

Events

The Indian Act

Keywords

'Cree-ness', 'where it went wrong', "left over", "they drown themselves", askîhkân, British settlers, Canada's Colonial History, Cree, Cree autonomy, ê-kî-mistâpâwéhisocik, e-mâyihkamikahk, grandfather stones, iskanikan, kôkôcîs, mistasiniy, nêhiyawak, nêhiyawêwin, ninosôm, oral history, pâstâhowin, reserve land, Reserve System, reserves, Residential Schools, transgression, treaty

Locations

Alberta, Cree territory, mihkomin sâkahikan, nêhiyawaskiy, Redberry Lake, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 territory, Western Canada