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Searching For Sakitawak: Place And People In Northern Saskatchewan's Ile-A La Crosse, Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
Searching For Sakitawak: Place And People In Northern Saskatchewan's Ile-A La Crosse, Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
This presentation is a history of a small community, Île-à-la-Crosse, located in an area now part of Saskatchewan, Canada. With an historic reputation for cooperation and enviable trading circumstances, its residents traditionally have determined that protection of the community ensured the best opportunities for the advancement and security of individuals. As a result of this belief, residents reinforced their own understandings of sustainability as a means to ensure personal success. The community’s fame for hosting such a set of norms grew, particularly from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and outsiders often visited to improve their own efforts as a …