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

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

Label
Far off Metal River : Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic
Title
Far off Metal River
Title remainder
Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic
Statement of responsibility
Emilie Cameron
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
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
Additional physical form
Issued also in electronic format.
Cataloging source
NLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Cameron, Emilie
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Inuit
  • Inuit
  • Inuit
  • Culture conflict
  • Bloody Falls Massacre, 1771
  • Postkolonialismus
  • Kulturkonflikt
  • Eskimo
  • Siedler
  • Mündliche Überlieferung
  • Rechtfertigung
  • Gewalt
  • Ausbeutung
  • Natürliche Ressourcen
  • Grundeigentum
  • Arktis
  • Kanada
  • Kanada
  • Inuits
  • Inuits
  • Conflit culturel
  • Inuits
  • Inuits
  • Inuits
  • Conflit culturel
  • Massacre de Bloody Falls, Kugluktuk, 1771
Label
Far off Metal River : Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic, Emilie Cameron
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Summer stories -- Ordering violence -- To mourn -- Copper stories -- Resistance stories -- Toward and emerging past -- Ptarmigan stories
Control code
904182330
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xxi, 273 pages
Isbn
9780774828840
Lccn
2015451839
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
Other control number
12288784
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)904182330
Label
Far off Metal River : Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic, Emilie Cameron
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Summer stories -- Ordering violence -- To mourn -- Copper stories -- Resistance stories -- Toward and emerging past -- Ptarmigan stories
Control code
904182330
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xxi, 273 pages
Isbn
9780774828840
Lccn
2015451839
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
Other control number
12288784
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)904182330

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