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People of the Deer

Farley Mowat

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#1539 of 3,809 books · #576 in History

Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1953).

In 1886, the Ihalmiut of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when 25-year-old Farley Mowat travelled to the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them, he observed the millennia-old migration of the caribou and endured the bleak winters, food shortages and continual, devastating intrusions of interlopers bent on exploiting the Arctic. In this seminal book, Mowat details a genocide wrought by misunderstanding and neglect. Debated long after its publication, this powerful story of the Ihalmiut continues to haunt the Canadian conscience.

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Publisher
D & M Publishers
ISBN-13
9781771000451
Genre
History
Topics
Indigenous peoples of CanadaArctic explorationCultural decline and colonialism

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