Conversations and interviews with sixteen different speakers include legends, reminiscences, historical narratives, stories and conversations as well as descriptions of technology. The book includes a detailed pronunciation guide, notes on Cree terms, informants comments, dialect variations, and descriptions of cultural values and customs. The introduction describes and compares the various genres in traditional and popular culture.

As told by Simeon Scott, Xavier Sutherland, Isaiah Sutherland, John Wynne, Joel Linkater, Silas Wesley, Hannah Wynne, Gabrield Kiokee, Andrew Faries, Sophie Gunner, James Gunner, Willie Frenchman, hannah Loon, Ellen McLeod, and John Carpenter

Originally published in 1995, Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of james Bay is the first Major body of annotated texts in james By Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and moose Cree (Western james Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s.