In this reflection, I compare the Mistassini Cree to the Australian aboriginals and our society today.The Mistassini Cree have a strong sense of kinship and legacy. The reading gives numerous examples of social order that the Mistassini established. The various roles of the elders, women, and men show how they had these roles to contribute to their cooperative type of community. I related the reading on this tribe to the movie we watched in class, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”. They had a way of living, a reason why they did the things they did, and it might not make sense to us but it is done that way to serve a need. The hunters as described in the reading, were aware of the population of certain game, the weather, their surroundings in general, because they wanted to preserve the wilderness. The Cree has rituals and traditions that contribute to this. In relation to the Australian aboriginals i noticed a lot of similarities between the two types of tribes. Both groups had “religious mythology and ceremony that were complex and were far from primitive.” Many of these traditions were directly related to ecology and attributed towards the environment. This makes me think of things that my mother told me, simple myths that i believed to be superstition. These myths and rituals were an easy way to pass down lessons and to teach kin how to “live”. Both groups were very aware of their environment and the carbon footprint they may leave on their surroundings. Because everything they did revolved around obtaining food, and nourishment from their environment they were careful as to how they treated it. The Australian Aboriginal primitive way of life, brings about a rawness that we have lost in our society today. Their relation to the land, and the respect they have to their surrounding is something that no longer exists in our society today. The aboriginals even considered every human in some essential way a spirit of the land.