People of the deer

Type

Book

Authors

Farley Mowat ( Mowat, Farley )

Tags

Inuit -- Canada, Caribou Inuit, Inuit, Inuit -- Social life and customs, Inuit -- Folklore, Creative nonfiction

Abstract

"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."--WorldCat.org.

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