Geneology/Family members >>

• Ancestors
  • Maternal great-grandfather (David, or Gabowb'stowchiibii)
  • Maternal great-grandmother
  • Maternal great-aunt (Nancy)
  • Maternal grandparents (David Sheshamush and Mary Mamianskum)
  • Paternal grandfather (Sam Masty)
  • Mother (Ann Sheshamush)
  • Father (Samson Masty)
  • Uncle Sam
  • Uncle Isaac
  • Uncle George
  • Uncle Joseph
  • Aunt Mary
  • Aunt Phyllis
  • Aunt Naomi
  • Aunt Edith
  • Aunt Caroline

• Siblings
  • John
  • George
  • Elizabeth
  • Ronnie
  • Joseph

• Cousins
  • Charlotte
  • Margaret
  • Stella Masty
  • David
  • Robbie
  • Jimmy Atchynia

• Children
  • Robert
  • Patrick

• Grandchildren
  • Justice
  • Hunter

• Births (as markers of time)
  • Elizabeth’s birth
  • Ronnie’s birth
  • Joseph’s birth
  • Robert’s birth

Childhood memories on the land >>

• Living in “the bush”
  • Making teepees
  • Hunting porcupine and setting up fishing lines
  • Paddling and eating from Clearwater Lake
  • Grandmother Mary, medicine woman and healing
  • Living with grandmother Mary
  • “TB Boat” - transportation to hospital
  • Emily thrown out of teepee
  • Uncle Isaac, honouring Emily
  • Popping bullets in the stove
  • Travelling by foot and by canoe
  • Mother breastfeeding Elizabeth during a winter storm
  • Playing with milk crates
  • DEW lines
  • Stone-crusher machine
  • French Catholic Missions at Richmond Gulf
  • Mother pregnant with Joseph, “ridiculed”
  • Father returns to family after two years
  • Emily’s red dress
  • Travelling and Ronnie’s birth
  • Siblings’ gift to Ronnie at birth
  • Measles epidemic
  • Boat ride and aid from Inuit after Ronnie’s birth
  • Father’s ice fishing
  • Lack of food: Emily faints from hunger
  • Emily is sick, father hunts her a rabbit
  • Caribou hunting and celebration
  • Mother hunts porcupine
  • George alone on the lake
  • Emily cuts herself with an axes
  • Ronnie rolls down the hill
  • Starving child
  • Travelling to Whapmagoostui from Richmond Gulf
  • George gets lost in the woods
  • Emily’s feet, constantly cold

Hunting, Fishing, or Trapping stories >>

• Hunting stories
  • Hunting porcupines
  • Hunting caribou
  • Hunting otter
  • Hunting bears
  • ‘Hunting territory’
  • Father hunting
  • Emily is sick, father hunts her a rabbit

• Fishing stories
  • Fishing trips
  • Emily fishing with father
  • Ice fishing
  • Mother catches big trout
  • Fishing at Madawow

• Trapping stories
  • Trapping
  • Setting traplines

Hunting and fishing to supplement welfare/family allowances

Life in the village/settlement >>

• Living in town
  • Summer school
  • Expectations and etiquette
  • Father's janitorial job
  • Elizabeth's 'broken leg'
  • Elizabeth falls in the stream
  • Daily chores
  • First clinic built
  • 'Hospital at measles time'
  • Trying new foods
  • Father living with Inuit woman

• Life in the settlement
  • Assigned a house
  • Settlement layout
  • Playing with siblings
  • Fur and caribou decline
  • Rec hall and movies
  • Hanging out at the beach
  • Visit to residential school
  • Chores

Various Schools >>

• Summer school at Whapmagoostui
  • Narrator in school play

• Shingwauk Residential School
  • Emily visits
  • Leaving for residential school
  • Felling homesick
  • Meets Billy Diamond, James Bay Agreement
  • Expo '67
  • First job, cleaning a house
    • Duration: two years

• Anna McCrea Elementary School
  • Ojibwe peers
  • Received merit badge

• Sir James Dunn High School
  • Did not return to school

• Homestay #1
  • Harassed by boy

• Homestay #2
  • Moving into Homestay #2

• La Macaza Institution
  • Band management course

Teen years >>

• Teenage years in the settlement
  • First teenagers to live in the settlement
  • Gathering with friends, dancing
  • Curfew
  • Smoking
  • Father hits Emily for smoking
  • 'Hanging out at the rec hall'
  • Walking home alone at night
  • Dancing and dances
  • Watching movies
  • Pushing Elizabeth away
  • Friend, teenage pregnancy

• “Boys” (romantic interests)
  • Inuit boys
  • Hudson Bay boys
  • Cree boys
  • First boyfriend

• Marriage proposals
  • Proposal #1
  • Proposal #2

• Teenage years at school
  • Expo '67
  • First theatre movie
  • First job, cleaning a house
  • Giving friends advice about boys

Friends >>

• Friends
  • Jane
  • Stella
  • Sarah Hunter
  • Betsy Tukaluk
  • Louisa Takedak
  • Margaret Sheshamush
  • Agnes Mamianskum
  • Laura
  • George
  • Rupert
  • Lucy
  • Noah Mamianskum
  • Ray-Ann
  • Lou-Anne
  • Anne

Foods >>

• Childhood (‘traditional’) foods and drinks
  • Celery
  • Porcupine
  • Fish
  • Fish: Lake trout and speckled trout
  • Otter
  • Bear grease/oil
  • Rabbit
  • Ptarmigan
  • Caribou
  • Pilot biscuits
  • Hot tea with Clim (powdered milk)
  • Bannock
  • Oats
  • Shikumin (with red berried)
  • Dried food
  • Bimmie
  • Stew
  • Hard candy
  • Cookies
  • Bannock
  • Rice

• ‘New’ foods
  • Ice cream
  • Eggs
  • Potatoes
  • Oranges
  • Apples
  • Beans
  • Canned tomatoes
  • Chocolate
  • Popcorn
  • Hamburger
  • Turkey
  • Indian curry (with rice)
  • Hot dogs
  • French fries
  • Alcohol

Illnesses >>

• Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Illness
  • "TB Boat"
  • "TB hospital in Moose Factory

• Strokes
  • Emily's mother

• Measles
  • Illness
  • Prevention
  • Hospital stay, Emily and George

• Stomach virus
  • Emily

• Upset stomach
  • 'Overdoese' on otter liver

Army clinics, nursing stations and hospitals >>

• Hospitals
  • "Hospitals"
  • Sanitorium
  • Hospital in Moose Factory
  • Lasalle Hospital in Montreal

• Army clinic
  • Clinic
  • Staff

• Nursing station

Federal Army and Quebec Government – Construction and Infrastructure >>

• Building the Armed Forces Base
  • DEW Lines
  • Blasting and crushing rocks
  • Building
  • Ships and Hercules planes
  • Army planes
• Building the nursing station
• Québec government
  • Building the settlement
  • Settlement houses

Language >>

• Languages
  • Cree language
  • English language

Play and playing >>

• Stories of play and playing
  • Unspecified playing
  • With crates of milk
  • With wooden carvings
  • Emily 'crying wolf'
  • Playing in the mud
  • Playing with spears
  • Sliding on sleighs and toboggans
  • Elizabeth's 'broken leg'
  • Movies at the rec hall
  • Arcade games

‘Permanent’ vs. ‘Transitory’ living >>

• New permanent living
  • Transition from life in "the bush" to life in the settlement