Killing the Shamen Lowland Cree Public Policy

Public Policy

the Code of Handsome Lake

and Tanya Senk

The Book of Rites recounts the history of the Six Nations Iroquois and the formation of the Confederacy

Killing the Shamen Lowland Cree Public PolicyKilling the Shamen is the story of the Sandy Lake Cree of northwestern Ontario and their clash with the Canadian criminal justice system in 1907. Jack Fiddler, shaman and leader, together with his brother, Joseph Fiddler, were charged with murder in the death of a possessed woman who had become a windigo. The two men were taken to Norway House in Manitoba for trial. This compelling story is told through the words of several Cree Elders who in 1971