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The Cree's Relationship With The Environment

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Human social systems and the environment are both very complex and highly adaptive. Complex because they consist of many different parts that are intricately connected. Adaptive because they are highly influential, both internally and towards each other, working towards the most effective path to survival in an ever changing landscape. The disposition of a society strongly affects its peoples attitude towards nature, their behaviors, and thus their effect on the environment. Ecosystem services are imperative for human well being, but how the environment is modified to obtain these benefits differs greatly between societies. The ways in which a society interacts and feels about one another shows in their relationship to nature. The Cree people …show more content…

This pans out in many different ways that fosters their positive relationship with the environment. Depending on each other inherently creates mutual feelings of respect within the Cree community. This sense of respect trickles down from the elders to the children. Respecting each other has taught the Cree to respect the environment around them and all within it. This element of respect is seen in the documentary when the Cree hold a ritual for the bear they have killed. Their ritualistic traditions are to show that the bear was not taken for granted and are meant to demonstrate respect for the bear population in entirety. They do this so the mighty bear may further provide them in their quest to survival. Depending on each other also creates the necessity of working together. The Cree live with multiple families under one roof for months. They depend on each other to build their shelter, provide food, educate children, and survive together. However they are not just working together with themselves, they are also working together with the environment to survive. Just as they provide for each other, the environment provides for them; the trees to build their cottage, the plants and animals to provide them with food, the timber to build their fires and so on. This creates a connection between the Cree society and and the land they live on. In the film they constantly describe land as their own, and how they have to protect and care for it just as they would protect and care for each other. Just as their are no boundaries between the Cree people their are no boundaries between the Cree and nature. They are harmoniously interlinked, living alongside each other in a healthy and respectful

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