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Re-Imagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous Peoples’Response to Social Suffering

York University, Ontario

In this ethnographic study of the Cree, a Canadian indigenous people, I explore the ‘pain of being Aboriginal’ as a particular form of social suffering. I then describe a particular event, a Native Gathering, which serves, in part, as a form of response to social suffering. For the people of Whapmagoostui, Quebec (Canada), the annual summer Gathering has become a time and a place to examine what it means to be Cree, a conscious and imaginative process that is constituted and enacted within the broader social and political reality.

Key Words: aboriginality • Cree • indigenous people • medical anthropology • response • social suffering

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 37, No. 1, 11-34 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/136346150003700101


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