Her story counterpoints the lives of an embittered old judge, a survivor of British colonial rule, with those of his loyal cook and the cook's son, one of the immigrants who scrabbles for subsistence on developing world pay in New York.
These days they live in a clearing near the city, reliant for their subsistence on state handouts.
It was also one of the poorest and most depressed fragments of the Canadian population, scratching out a subsistence on the rocky farming land north of Halifax.
Traditionally, the Woodland Cree, also called Swampy Cree or Maskegon, relied for subsistence on hunting, fowling, fishing, and collecting wild plant foods.
Whatever their provenance, their ancestors were condemned to subsistence on human offal; pigs often wandered the streets of ancient towns, gobbling up garbage and turning it into easily accessible meat.
And do the benefits of the project outweigh the impacts?" Supporters of the project argue that rural poverty has already led to deforestation and the economy needs to move away from its subsistence on commodities.
