Victor P. Lytwyn, Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land.(Book Review)

Manitoba History, March, 2003 by McCrady, David

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. xiv, 289 pp. 9 maps, 8 charts, 9 illus., notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0887556515,. $24.95.

Muskekowuck Athinuwick is comprehensive and interesting and clearly the work of a mature scholar. Lytwyn's previous book, The Fur Trade of the Little North, was valuable and well received by fur-trade scholars. (1) Muskekowuck Athinuwick is an equally masterful history of the Cree people of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their involvement in the fur trade from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

The opening chapter reconstructs the various social groupings among lowland Cree. Lytwyn discusses the distinction between those who lived by the coast and those who lived inland. Within these divisions, people...

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