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I consider data from Cree and Métis history, ethnology, and mythology to focus on three transformative modes (integration, disintegration, and media- tion) in relation to concepts of community. I develop an allegorical fantasy of oily monsters, tricksters, and their appetites arising from liquid commodities, in opposition to more integrative ritual practices that have historically underpinned community in the oil sands region of northern Alberta. Specifically, I suggest that (petro)-capitalism can be compared to the monstrous Windigo (not a trick- ster) with respect to its uncontrolled appetites and growth, and also that various proposed technical remediations resemble the vain adventures of the hubristic, foolish, and acquisitive Amerindian Trickster.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Knowing and Managing the Land: The Conundrum of Coexistence and Entanglement -- 2 Dialogues on Surviving: Eeyou Hunters' Ways of Engagement with Land, Governments, and Youth -- 3 The Endurance of Relational Ontology: Encounters between Eeyouch and Sport Hunters -- 4 Australia's Indigenous Protected Areas: Resistance, Articulation, and Entanglement in the Context of Natural Resource Management -- 5 Mediation between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Another Analysis of "Two-Way" Conservation in Northern Australia -- 6 Cultural Politics of Land and Animals in Treaty 8 Territory (Northern Alberta, Canada) -- 7 Entanglements in Coast Salish Ancestral Territories -- 8 Transmission of Knowledge, Clans, and Lands among the Yolnu (Northern Territory, Australia) -- 9 Alien Relations: Ecological and Ontological Dilemmas Posed for Indigenous Australians in the Management of "Feral" Camels on Their Lands -- 10 Nehirowisiw Territoriality: Negotiating and Managing Entanglement and Coexistence -- 11 Is There a Role for Anthropology in Cultural Reproduction? Maps, Mining, and the "Cultural Future" in Central Australia -- Afterword -- Contributors