Moose Cree Indians

Here are some pictures to show that there actually are some people living in Moosonee and Moose Factory. I am told that 80% of the population there are Cree Indians.

Moose Cree Indian Reserve in Northern Ontario.

Moosonee is a town on the shore of Moose River. It is the Northern terminus of a railway, you can get there quite easily from Toronto. This is about as far as you can get easily. There are no roads there. There is a college and a cathedral there. All notices are written in two languages (at least). Cree language has its own alphabet. Across the river (which is VERY wide) there is a town called

Moose Factory, the earliest factory of the Hudson Bay Company. This is where the Moose Cree Indian Reserve is located.

New York Reflections

No comments needed here, I guess. These are views of New York that anybody who has been there could see. Few people take any notice, though. Perhaps you need a lens of a camera to actually notice it. All these pictures are from Midtown area, somewhere around 42^nd Street, 5^th Avenue. On one of the pictures you can see St Patrick Cathedral, on another Grand Central Station (can you spot it?).

Boca de Mamiraua

The village of Boca de Mamiraua lies in an inner delta between Japura and Solimoes rivers, in the middle of Amazonia. This area is flooded every year so the houses have to be built on stilts. Sometimes there is unusually high water anyway, one can see a watermark on houses and trees. There is an evangelical church in the middle of the village where church music is played with electric guitars. There is no shortage of fish in the area, some are too big to be consumed fresh and are dried like washing on a line. The people there say they are not Indians but caboclos, the river people. 

One thing to note: these days one can roughly estimate the latitude of a place if a satellite dish is in the picture. The satellite is stationary and as such it has to be over the equator. Amazon is almost on the equator so the dishes face directly up.