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Chapters: Organizations Based in Nunavut, Demographics of Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut, Artcirq, Scouting and Guiding in Nunavut, Nunavut Interpreter/translator Society. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nunavut is a territory of Canada. It has a land area of 1,932,254.97 km² (746,047.81 square miles) . In the 2006 census the population of Nunavut was 29,474, with 24,875 people identifying themselves as Inuit (84.8% of the total population), 380 as First Nations (1.3%), 100 Métis (0.3%) and 3,945 as non-aboriginal (13.5%). Nunavut's small and sparse population makes it unlikely the territory will be granted provincial status in the foreseeable future, although this may change if the Yukon, which is only marginally more populous, becomes a province. The 2006 Canadian census showed a population of 29,474. Of the 29,025 singular responses to the census question concerning 'mother tongue' the languages most commonly reported were: There were also 260 responses of both English and a 'non-official language' (mainly Inuktitut); 20 of both French and a 'non-official language; 20 of both English and French; and about 140 people who either did not respond to the question, or reported multiple non-official languages, or else gave some other unenumerated response. Only English and French were counted as official languages in the census. Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses. The three dominant religions in Nunavut are Catholicism, Anglicanism and Born again Christianity. Traditionally, Inuit shamanism has always been a taboo subject in Inuit culture, not openly talked about. Shamans didn't make it known they were one, but the group or cl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9493981 ... Read more

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Nunavut explores the complex processes at work in the generation of political cultures. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and quantitative analysis, it provides the first systematic, empirical study of political life in Nunavut, offering comprehensive analysis of the evolving nature of aboriginal self-government in the Arctic and shedding crucial light on Inuit/non-Inuit relations. ... Read more

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Chapters: Crown Corporations of Nunavut, Nunavut Public Library Services, Nunavut Arctic College, Qulliq Energy, Nunavut Power, Liquor Licensing Board. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nunavut Public Library Services (NPLS) is the public library system serving the citizens of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Nunavut was established as a Canadian territory in 1999 when it separated from the Northwest Territories (NWT). The Nunavut Public Library Services operate as part of the Division of Culture and Heritage in the Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Atlantic Geology, published by Atlantic Geoscience Society on July 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1071 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kimberlites in northern Labrador and Nunavut: do they have exotic relatives in Quebec? (Geological Association of Canada 2000 Annual Technical Meeting Newfoundland Section).
Author: Derek H.C. Wilton
Publication: Atlantic Geology (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2000
Publisher: Atlantic Geoscience Society
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Imagine a land more than a dozen times the size of Montana, a land of immense inland seas, oceans of uncut forests, and myriad untamed rivers filled with huge northern pike, arctic grayling, and char. It is also a land of rock and of ice that lies glistening beneath flickering northern lights, a place where grizzlies wander among isolated mountain ranges, where polar bears roam among herds of caribou on the tundra flats. This is Canada’s far north, the place of Arctic Aurora.

Author John Holt has made nine trips to this wild place, covering some fifty thousand miles in his exploration of its magic. Through his words -- sometimes lyrical and introspective, sometimes insightfully humorous -- you’ll share in his adventures. Sometimes, they involve the miners, trappers, bush pilots, and even the odd tourist he encountered. At others, his focus is the cold-water game fish that he cast to and hooked in every corner of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Includes striking color and black-and-white photographs. ... Read more

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Teedjous boozy and insubstantial
I put this on my X-mas wish list based on the positive ratings. I ended up with two copies and having read as much as I could handle, can say I'm doubly disappointed. If you want some useful info on north country fishing and more than vignettes as stale as the air in a backcountry bar at 10 am, shop elsewhere. The first couple of chapters held my attention as I waited for some character development of the author's daugher as they travelled together in NWT but waited in vain as she comes off a shallow silhouette making and breaking camp or fishing with dad (some distance away in several senses of the word). I don't mean to impy anything about what she may be in reality, just how she comes accross in this work (albeit I wonder how she will make better choices than caretaker-of-dependant-personality-role inher own life). The balance of the book is strong on the tedium of driving long distance, booze, and a high fat, high sugar series of meals recounted in far too much detail. John McPhee this guy ain't, despite the detail of numerous turnouts and other attractions of Canadian roads. I hate to say it but my lasting impression is that the reality of the trips was a 'vehicle' for the booze and smokes and stoney sleep, lacking much meaning to relate after the guy sobered up. He'll make a buck on this book (or two in my case) but that ain't the same as making amends. As a parting shot, an angling writer who touts all the 3 pound grayling to be caught with ease in various road accessible streams (even in NWT or YT) does the resource a disservice.

A Journey into Forever and Beyond
Artic Aurora, Holt's latest and greatest literary work, guides us through Canada's Northwest Territories and the Yukon. For certain he describes where to find good food, good fishing and interesting places to visit, but this is no travelogue of where to go, what to do or how to catch fish. Instead, as he journeys through this wild, untamed and unfenced area of immense size in his 1983 Suburban, he discovers raw visceral power flows through the land in the Far North. A place where one can gaze out over the beautiful, intrepid landscape and see forever and beyond. Overhead, the aurora borealis dances and flickers with palpable energy. Immense rivers surge over countless waterfalls as they carve and gouge their way towards the ocean. An unseen power sizzles through the land.

As Holt relates his many wanderings across the Far North he writes with a clarity and detail that create rich, mesmerizing visions that roll through the mind. The book is chock full of interesting details about the land, the people and their history. Several amusing anecdotes and stories had me laughing out loud.

As in his book Coyote Nowhere, a precursor to Artic Aurora, Holt reflects on his life and also looks into the future as he bares his soul, warts and all. He shuns glitz, glitter and hucksterism. He hates the exploitation of the land and the people who inhabit it. He is passionate but not preachy. Holt is maturing; evolving as a writer and Artic Aurora deserves a place on the bookshelf next to authors like MacLean, Gierach and Travers.

Running Full Bore in Canada's Far North
Arctic Aurora is a delight. Holt careens around the hidden Canadian northwest in a joyous rage, remarking on the land, the fishing, and the people, good and bad. From ice roads, to mosquitoes, to arctic grayling, and the native Dene, this book gives the reader a true taste of the Canadian north. There have been a number of books written about the arctic these days, but damn few good ones...and Arctic Aurora truly is.

He Does It Again
Holt does it again. Artic Aurora shows us the intensity of the country and the love that Holt has for it. Reading the book made me, a man from the city sprawl of Delaware, want to go up and see the country for myself before it is touched by the outside world. Perfectly detailed, I couldn't put the book down. I felt that the added pictures that only hinted at the beauty of the land helped in imagining what it's like up there. I write this in that John Holt did what he does so well, give us a deep and honest look into the last of the untamed country. It's a must read for those trying to find the last great wilderness.

Greatest contemporary book of the Arctic
Holt takes you on a ride through the Northwest Territories and the Yukon with great humor and depth of thought regarding the land and the Dene, and Inuit who inhabit this beautiful country. He travels in a vintage 1983 Suburban which holds up to the rigorous roads, especially the Dempster Highway, a tough road with spectacular views.Holt's descriptions of the land are the best I've read in any book on the Arctic or any land for that matter.This book is filled with heart, mind and soul of the author.A great read! ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:"Drumhead" logos such as this often adorned the ends of observation cars on the WP ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Arena Magazine, published by Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd. on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1869 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: RECONCILING INDIGENOUS AND NATIONAL POLITICS.(Canada's social polic)
Author: Peter Jull
Publication: Arena Magazine (Refereed)
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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1086 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mars project brings space program to Nunavut youth. (Education).(Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station)(Brief Article)
Author: Cheryl Petten
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 20Issue: 5Page: 30(2)

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In April 1999, the Inuit dream of a self-governing territory in the eastern Arctic - Nunavut (Our Land) - became a reality. In celebration of this historic event comes a new edition of Inuit Journey, a firsthand account of another turning point in Inuit history: the establishment in the early 1960s of member-owned, member-run Inuit co-operatives, which played a major role in the march toward independence.Edith Iglauer was on assignment for The New Yorker in 1961 when she went to the Canadian Arctic to write about the first Inuit co-operative. She accompanied a small party of Canadians led by Donald Snowden, a dynamic young idealist who had been hired by the Department of Indian Affairs in response to a crisis: the traditional food supply of the Inuit was disappearing; people were dying of starvation; the survivors were struggling to cope with a massive erosion of their way of life. Iglauer attended the historic gathering of government workers and Inuit leaders at George River (later renamed Kangiqsualujjuaq), where the first co-operative held its first business meeting.It was an event that changed people's lives. Thanks to Snowden's belief that when people are given the chance, they make wiser decisions for themselves than others make for them, and thanks to the incredible imagination and stamina of the Inuit people at George River, co-operatives proved invaluable as the Inuit moved toward a new form of self-sufficiency.This new edition contains 20 previously unpublished black-and-white photographs, and a new preface and epilogue with updated information and Iglauer's affecting story of her own, more personal journey to revisit Kangiqsualujjuaq in 1994. ... Read more

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In Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike, two historians-one from each side of the border-give readers the feeling of what life was like on the Chilkoot Trail-a thirty-three mile journey over the coastal mountains from the tidewaters of Alaska to the headwaters of the Yukon River-before, during, and after the great Klondike gold rush. Over the years, the rush has become synonymous with high adventure, peril, and a time when thousands of men-and a few courageous women-braved their way over mountain passes, down a raging river, and into the heart of a wild and frozen land. ... Read more

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A Facsinating story about the gold rush
If you want to learn about the gold rush and have fun doing it, read The chilkoot trail.This book, by Dave Neufeld and Frank Norris, will allow you to explore the facts about the gold rush, including the affect it had on the first nations of the yukon and women, whether they are wives of miners or Yukoners. Once you start this book, you won;t be able to put it down.You'll read about the 1896 Gold rush and the miners, each wanting their share of gold, the trail they had to pass to get there for not only was it a long and tiring steep trail, it was also a test of courage, a battle each miner had to fight before reaching their goal: gold.This is a great book for any adult, whether you're fro the Yukon, going to the Yukon or just wanting to read a great book. It's wonderful book to be used for reasearch. ... Read more

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During the 1930s, Bill White gave up trapping and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, volunteering for arctic service. Arctic life was so dodgy in those days of the Mad Trapper and The Lost Patrol, the force couldn't send you against your will, so volunteering was the only way to get there. Bill started out crewing on the historic RCMP patrol ship St. Roch under the command of the legendary Captain Henry Larsen, but hungered for greater adventure and requested a posting ashore upon reaching Cambridge Bay. Adventure he found: MOUNTIE IN MUKLUKS includes hair-raising accounts of a near-death experience under the ice on a frozen river; a 1,200-mile dog-sled chase after an arctic murderer; and numerous fascinating encounters with shamans, telepathy, and an Inuit way of life that has now vanished from earth. ... Read more

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THE WAY IT WAS: LIFE IN THE OLD NORTH
I have a whole passel of personal connections with this book. Not only did I once live on the arctic coast for several years, I've fished the mouth of the river that almost took Bill's life.I was still living in Toloyoak in 1974 when Bill White made his return trip to Cam. Bay after 40 years, though I didn't know it at the time. I've walked and crawled all over the St. Roch in its permanent berth at the Vancouver Maritime Museum and visited Pasley Bay on the Boothia Peninsula where it once overwintered in the ice. Thanks to James Eetoolook and Pat Lyall I've visited almost every landfall along the ice coast the St. Roch stopped into the summer of 1930.
Then, while living on the Sunshine Coast in 1975, the author's father, Howard White (they aren't related to Bill), loaned me a copy of Bill's original 175 page manuscript. I thought it a dry read, historically questionable in places and grossly over opinionated. In fact, when Bill asked me what I thought of it, I told him I figured his opinions were as valid as anybody else's'. Holy poop! "Opinions," he bellowed, and that was the end of that politically incorrect conversation.
Jim

LIFE IN THE OLD NORTH

"I never wanted to be a cop. Christ, I didn't want to spend my life handing out traffic tickets. I joined the RCMP so I could get up north. There was nothing more to it."
So opens this illuminating book about fours years in the life of Bill White, one of the most unlikely of cops ever to build an igloo.
Written entirely in the first person by Patrick White (no relation to Bill), this tale will captivate arctic buffs, RCMP enthusiasts, historians and everybody else interested in a first hand glimpse of"the best years of my life;" how it was in the central arctic in the early 1930s. Life in the old north.
"I decided to join up with an eye on getting to the Arctic as soon as possible." After basic training in Regina: "...really nothing more than a modified Boy Scouts program," Bill began his career herding naked Doukhobours and chasing bootleggers along the US border in Saskatchewan. He applied for arctic service and was transferred to Vancouver, there to await transport north.
Bill shipped out of Vancouver aboard the St. Roch under the command of the legendary Henry Larsen in June 1930, bound for the arctic.
The book dishes up a smorgasbord of written and visual delicacies (there are 80 some black and white photographs throughout); snapshots of the old police posts at Herschel Island, Baillie Island, Bernard Harbour, Coppermine and Cambridge Bay as the St. Roch flounders in frigid swells, scrapes through pack ice, bounces off reefs, dodges bergs and slams across sand bars.
Bill meets arctic veterans like trader Charlie Klengenberg and his son Patsy, Ikey Bolt who married Charlie's daughter Etna, Gjoa Haven Canalaska trader George Washington Porter, Tree River Hudson's Bay trader Otto Binder and Mrs. Pannigabluk Stefansson. He befriends Sam Carter, Mahik and L. A. Learmouth. In fact, he and Learmouth once liberated three quarts of alcohol from the compass of the good ship Maud, by then a half submerged derelict in Cambridge Bay, and the two'm ended up having a fine old time.
Learning to live in the country, Bill was taught how to build an igloo, hunt caribou and seals. He spent the better part of each summer in a fish camp at Wellington Bay. And he got to go trapping too, albeit illegally, bringing in $3,500.00 in white foxes one year; quite a boost to his $700.00 annual salary.
A census took him over 700 miles by dog team to count 750 northern folk widely scattered over a wide chunk of real estate. Another trip took him a thousand miles by dogs to retrieve a body and witnesses in an alleged murder case.
Returning south to another land and another life, Bill finally revisited Cambridge Bay in June of 1974, went fishing with Bill Lyall and had tea again with Angulalik and his old friend Mahik.
"On a windy autumn day, snow crunching underfoot, two active Mounties, a priest and two Inuit elders stood on Mount Pelly, the hill overlooking Cambridge Bay, with Bill's ashes." It was the fall of 2001. Constable Dean Larkin let the wind scatter Bill's mortal remains in the one place in the world where he had always felt he belonged. Bill White was home.
This may Patrick's White's first book but he's sure enough learned how to use his tools. Patrick has done a bang up job of rendering Bill's adventures imminently readable, historically sound and immensely enjoyable. Feet up beside the wood stove, Mountie in Mukluks was a fine trip for me.

Review by Jim Green

Mountie in Mukluks
This book is incredibly refreshing and honest.Finally, a man who is not afraid to speak the truth and who really immersed himself in the Inuk culture to be able to understand these Canadians.A book well worth buying as youw will want to read it over and over. ... Read more

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John Denison and his crew waited for the coldest, darkest days of winter every year to set out to build a 325-mile road made of ice and snow, from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to a silver mine on Great Bear Lake, above the Arctic Circle. Denison's Ice Road is their story. Edith Iglauer was the first outsider ever to accompany them as they worked. This book, her chronicle of a grueling, fascinating journey through Canada's North, has sold over 20,000 copies since its first publication in 1974. ... Read more

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Denison's ice road
Denison's Ice Road I WATCH THE "ICE ROAD TRUCKERS" SERIES AND ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THE HISTORY OF "THE ROAD". ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING ACCOUNT!!! LOVED IT! A STORY F "TRUE GRIT!!"

Dennison's Ice Road
History and adventure in one book. Well written and easy to follow.
If you watched " Ice Road Truckers" on TV this provides a lead in to that.

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I AM VERY HAPPY WITH THIS PURCHASE.I TOTALLY LOVED THIS BOOK! THANX!

excellent book!
A very facsinating book based on the ice road.A documentary based upon this book was on TV and I had to buy it.It was enthralling.

AMAZING story.....
This is an amazing book.....I've read it, lent it out to friends, and finally had to chase it down and take it back because I wanted to read it again, in the midst of the "Ice Road Truckers" series.John Denison was one of the guys that "started it all" up there, building the ice roads.to think that he allowed a woman to come along and write about it just boggles the mind.To think she DID it just boggles the mind. We're talking the 70's here, pre-computer, pre-GPS, pre-cell phone.In this book, John Denison is ailing, but he actually lived to be 84 years old and was honored by the Canadian government for his efforts at the ice road building.A wonderful story.If you are an "Ice Road Trucker" fan, do not hesitate one bit, get this book.If you are just looking for an interesting book with historical perspective on the Far North, this is it.I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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Hot on the hooves of previous bestselling Lost Moose catalogues, this eclectic compendium of community writing, photography and art from over 280 contributors, tells about life in the north. Looking at travel, self-sufficiency, kids, animals, the land, recycling, wilderness and art, this "Moose" is a classic. Like Another Lost Whole Moose Catalogue (over 22,000 copies sold) and The Original Lost Whole Moose Catalogue (13,000 copies sold), this book is destined to be a northern bestseller! ... Read more

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This comprehensive book profiles Alaska’s neighbor to the east, whose residents look to mining, tourism, and a fledgling service industry to maintain their lifestyle amid some of the most spectacular scenery, mightiest rivers, and highest mountains on the continent. ... Read more

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No one writes about the Arctic and its inhabitants better than Farley Mowat. In Walking on the Land, he returns to this subject and, in the tradition of The People of the Deer, brings to life the plight of the Ihalmuit, or Barrenground Inuit, a people almost wiped out by famine and epidemics. Enlivened by vivid descriptions and larger-than-life characters, this book brings Mowat’s writing full circle, and will stand as a testament to his lifelong passion for the Arctic and his unparalleled talent as its champion. ... Read more

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People of the Deer revisited
When I was a boy in the 1950s I read Farley Mowat's "People of the Deer" serialized in an outdoor magazine.That I remember the book 50 years later testifies to Mowat's narrative power in telling the story of the near extinction of the Ihalmuit people in far northern Canada. The Ihalmuit are Eskimos (Innuit) but unlike their sea-dwelling relatives live inland and depend on the barren ground caribou for their sustenance. Mowat is the indispensable source of information for the Ihalmuit and turned out a classic in "People of the Deer."

In "Talking to the Land" Mowat describes his revisit to the Ihalmuit in 1959. This book lacks the high adventure of "People of the Deer."It indicts the Canadian government, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Catholic missionaries, and big business for their uncaring and criminally stupid behavior in dealing with the Ihalmuit. There are many vivid scenes and characters in this short book. The most touching describes his meeting with the last survivor of the Ihalmuit who sought him out in 1999 and inspired him to write this book.

Mowat is a gifted advocate and writer, but I won't give him top marks because his reputation is that of a subjective writer, striving for effect and impact rather than objective truth. Knowing that, I am sympathetic with his views but also a little mistrustful. Did he really have the experiences he describes?Is his assessment of the situation that led to the extinction of the Ihalmuit accurate?Can he be trusted or is he a teller of tales masquerading as a writer of fact?

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Hooked on Mowat
Mowat once again deals with the subjugation of Inuit peoples by the Canadian government, the Episcopal and Catholic churches as well as various companies who decide there's big money to be made in the arctic. The government ignores pleas that Inuits are facing starvation and medical crises. Churches try to convert and some officials feel justified in relocating children to specialized schools. Company employees exploit native women for sexual favors in exchange for food for their starving families. There are some good guys here but they are few and far between. Mowat has written a series on this subject which include "People of the Deer" and "The Desperate People" all of which report the history, mythology, customs, habits etc of the Ihalmuit people who lived in what is now the new Canadian province of Nunavut-just north of Manitoba. Various pressures, the greatest being starvation, reduced their numbers to less than 200. They were relocated as is related in this book to a coastal region which they were unused to and were not adapted to surviving there. This was another government folly. The Canadians came later to their own chapter in conquering native peoples as this takes place in the 1950's. I say this as a general term because there were and are Canadians who appreciate Inuit culture and attempted to intervene. Mowat himself was not well liked by any of the major players in those episodes which he is very candid about.
I am totally hooked on Mowat's work. He is a cultural anthropologist but he's such an adventure writer, a person gets so caught up in the unfolding drama. The characters are so richly portrayed and their customs explained so well that their way of life as it was will forever be recorded in his books even if it has disappeared. By the way "walking on the land" refers to an Inuit custom of going out into the cold to die. It was done by gracious elders whose younger families faced starvation in order to save children. It was also done by people who felt they had outlived their usefulness.

Canada's Conscience
With gritty and brutal honesty, Farley Mowat carries the reader back to the Artic regions in a follow up to PEOPLE OF THE DEER and A DESPERATE PEOPLE and the treatment/mistreatment of the natives by the Canadian government and church authorities.Mr. Mowat paints a vivid picture of the artic region and the various boondoggles designed to "help" the native peoples (which certainly parallels the wretched treatment of Native Americas in this country).What was particularly shocking was that much of this happened in the 1950s.While the subject matter can't always be defined as enjoyable, I did enjoy this armchair travel with the amazing Mr. Mowat.-Mamalinda ... Read more

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A personal journey of discovery, a portrait and a historyof the human presence in the Arctic. Voices in Stone is not only anaccount of the discovery of archaeological materials in the HighArctic, but a story of life in remote, isolated research campsoccasionally threatened by sudden, violent storms or curious polarbears. ... Read more