"Chief Theresa Spence’s moderate hunger strike is the polar
opposite of the war tactics of the 17th and 18th century Indians
of James and Hudson’s Bay. The lowlands of the northern forest,
their shorelines and muskegs were hotly contested by the Cree
and Inuit prior to the arrival of the Europeans, as the latter
moved further and further south. The fur-traders turned the tide
in favor of Indians, who were first able to trade for guns; the
Inuit were initially kept unarmed by Hudson’s Bay Company
policy. The armed Cree turned with a vengeance on their Eskimo
rivals. Following many of the massacres their warriors would eat
an inch of raw Eskimo flesh, often a piece of fat cut from the
thigh of the scalped, slain victims. Women and children, if not
killed, were adopted into families or taken as slaves." Decade
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