 Ethnic Categories and Inter-Peoples’ Relationalities in Cree and Innu Oral Traditions 
Building on Sylvie Vincent’s inquiries into Laurentian Innu narratives about early relations with Europeans, a comparison is undertaken with the oral traditions of neighbouring James Bay Crees. The comparison confirms a shared logic by which relations with newcomers are remembered and evaluated across the Québec-Labrador Peninsula. The comparison illuminates the formation and fluidity of ethnic categories applied to French, English, personnel of rival fur trading companies, and persons of mixed ancestry. But the key question for both Innu and Cree narratives is whether relations between peoples fulfills or fails standards of reciprocity. The answer is somewhat variable in contexts of relations with fur traders and companies on James Bay, versus relations with settler farmers and colonial government along the St. Lawrence. Innu and Cree discourses alike reflect on experience from the past to advocate positive inter-peoples’ reciprocity as the standard for humanity.