The History Team, led by University of Winnipeg Professor Roland Bohr, has a goal to build a rich historical understanding of the people, places, and cultures of Rocky Cree territory in northern Manitoba by using and gathering oral history accounts from Rocky Cree elders and traditional knowledge keepers and by careful comparative research into analogous contexts as identified by the existing ethnographic, oral, historical and archaeological records. In this initial phase, research assistants will search academic databases, especially the records of the Hudson’s Bay Company at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives in Winnipeg for pertinent information related to various aspects of ethnographic material on Indigenous Peoples in the Hudson Bay watershed, especially the Churchill River drainage and produce an annotated bibliography.
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Roland Bohr
Team Leader
Roland Bohr is the Director of the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies at the University of Winnipeg, where he also teaches North American Indigenous history. Bohr’s interdisciplinary research specializes in Indigenous material culture of the fur trade period and involves manufacturing functional reproductions of Indigenous bows and arrows, based on information obtained from examining surviving Indigenous artifacts in museums, working with Indigenous Elders and analyzing fur trader’s journals and travel accounts.
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Scott Stephen
Scott Stephen has spent more than thirty years working in museums, archives, universities, heritage organizations, and anywhere else that a History degree might come in handy. Between 2000 and 2014, he taught history at both the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. Since 2007, his 'day job' has been with Parks Canada's Winnipeg office, where he has worked on a variety of projects for national historic sites from York Factory to the Yellowhead Pass and beyond. He is particularly interested in the Hudson’s Bay Company and the trading post communities which it helped create: within this larger context, his current research interests includea history of work (overlapping with, but distinct from, labour history) and a history of space, landscape, and soundscape. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife, his son, two cats, and an alarming number of books.