In this memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada--including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general.
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ISBN:9781039005594 (pbk.)
Physical Description:308 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm print
Preface -- Discovery. 1. Colonial Justice: White Men in Black Robes ; 2. Left or Right?: Survival of the Fastest ; 3. Where's Frobisher Bay?: Always Trust Your Gut ; 4. Jonah Kelly-E7-262: I Am Not a Dog ; 5. Joe Tobie: Treasured Hunts ; 6. Northern Lights and Wine: At Life's Crossroads ; 7. Warm Memory Frozen in Time: The Lull Before the Storm -- Turbulence. 8. Bulldozers and Big Dishes: What's a Land Claim? ; 9. Stars in the Northern Lights: Principles Before Personalities ; 10. All Equal Now: Berger and the Winds of Change ; 11. Berger's Southern Hearings: Canada-Through Their Eyes ; 12. The Shit Hits the Fan: No Regrets-But Still Wrong -- Builders. 13. Cover Girl: The Woman Who Would Become the First Indigenous Governor General ; 14. Meet the Parents: Like Geese-Migratory Birds, Mated for Life ; 15. Viceregal Boot Camp: Our Culture Clash ; 16. Amaujaq: First Canadian, Canadian First ; 17. Stephen Kakfwi-Radical but Right: New Strings on an Old Guitar ; 18. Changing Canada: The Other John A. ; 19. Tagak Curley: The Inuit Enigma ; 20. Charlie Watt: The Comeback Elder ; 21. Meet My Elders: Duck Soup Is Not on the Menu ; 22. Glaciers, Grads and Geezers: Climate Change You Can See and Touch -- Postscript -- Acknowledgements -- Index of Proper Names.
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