Far off Metal River : Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic / Emilie Cameron.

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Cameron, Emilie, author.

Title & Author:

Far off Metal River : Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic / Emilie Cameron.

Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
Summer stories -- Ordering violence -- To mourn -- Copper stories -- Resistance stories -- Toward and emerging past -- Ptarmigan stories.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

In 1771, Samuel Hearne, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, set off with a group of Dene guides to explore part of the Central Arctic. Twenty-four years later, Hearne's gruesome account of what has become known as the Bloody Falls massacre, an alleged attack by his guides on a camp of sleeping Inuit, was published. In Far Off Metal River, author Emilie Cameron does not concern herself with whether the murders actually took place (as has been debated since 1795) but instead explores how Hearne's account of the massacre has shaped ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. As Cameron demonstrates, the Arctic has for centuries been treated like a blank page onto which a long line of explorers, missionaries, anthropologists, resource companies, and politicians have inscribed stories that serve their own interests. These stories have played a central role in shaping how the region's people have been, and continue to be, treated. They have also been used to justify opening the North to industrial resource extraction. Consequently, Qablunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) have a responsibility to question their myths about the North, first by placing them within their proper historical, geographical, and social context and then by developing new understandings and new relationships that reflect the actual political, cultural, economic, environmental, and social landscapes of the contemporary Arctic.--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780774828840 (bound ; acid free)
0774828846 (bound ; acid free)
9780774828857 (paperback)
0774828854 (paperback)
(pdf)
9780774828864
(epub)
9780774828871

Subject:

Inuit Colonization Nunavut.
Inuit Crimes against Nunavut.
Inuit Nunavut Social conditions.
Culture conflict Nunavut.
Bloody Falls Massacre, 1771.
Inuits Nunavut Colonisation.
Inuits Crimes contre Nunavut.
Inuits Nunavut Conditions sociales.
Conflit culturel Nunavut.
Massacre de Bloody Falls, Kugluktuk, 1771.
Society.
Culture conflict.
Inuit Social conditions.
Postkolonialismus
Kulturkonflikt
Eskimo
Siedler
Mündliche Überlieferung
Rechtfertigung
Gewalt
Ausbeutung
Natürliche Ressourcen
Grundeigentum
Inuits Conditions sociales.
Nunavut.
Arktis
Kanada
Kanada Nordwest

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307687
Call No.: BIB 253169
Status: Available

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