Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories -- Biography, Northwest Territories -- Social life and customs, Dene -- Biography, Inuit -- Biography, Dene, Inuit 

"In Northerners — a collection of profiles of people in the Northwest Territories — Douglas Holmes paints a picture of the North that is as informative as it is entertaining.

There are churchmen like René Fomoleau, the Roman Catholic priest who has shocked many members of his church by denouncing the role of Catholicism in the oppression of native people, and Benjamin Arreak, an Anglican minister who was almost driven out of his first parish by his Inuit flock because he was not white.

There are native leaders like Cece McCauley, the first woman to become a Dene chief and the operator of a restaurant at the Inuvik airport; and Stephen Kakfwi, former president of the Dene nation and a key figure in the negotiation of the recent land-claim settlement with the Dene/Metis of the Mackenzie valley.

There are politicians like the buckskin-wearing Nick Sibbeston, former government leader and a politician known for throwing tantrums in the legislature; the prominent Liberal Lynda Sorensen, who has temporarily given up politics to work with native people; and Peter Ittinuar, the Inuit MP whose life lay in tatters after his defeat in the 1984 federal election and a criminal conviction for wife-beating.

There is the internationally renowned artist David Ruben Piqtoukun, the champion dog musher Richard Beck, and the reindeer rancher William Nasogauluk. And then there are the plain folk like Ed Klaus, king of the truckers on one of the most treacherous routes anywhere; and Anna Nungaq, an Inuit who was caught in a government relocation scheme in the 1950s and who, last year, finally moved back to her home in northern Quebec.

By vividly portraying real people living in a real world, Northerners illuminates the lives of those men and women who have made the North what it is today."--Book jacket. 

190 pages : portraits ; 24 cm. 

Contents:
Part 1. Traditional lives --
A life on the land / Robert, Annie G. --
Relocated to total darkness / Nungaq, Anna --
Piqtoukun: polar bears in Africa / Ruben, David --
Dog-mushing dynasty / Beck, Richard --
Project surname / Okpik, Abe --
Criticism and Catholicism / Fumoleau, Rene --
Alternative Anglicanism / Arreak, Benjamin --
Part II. Political lives --
Filibustering in slavery / Sibbeston, Nick --
Twenty-eight words later / Curley, Tagak --
The chief with the FAX / McCauley, Cece --
A good time to settle a land-claim / Kakfwi, Stephen --
Shedding the redneck image / Sorensen, Lynda --
To Ottawa and back / Ittinuar, Peter --
Part III. Business lives --
Fur trader and jet setter / Lebessis, Nick --
Reindeer are not caribou / Nasogaluak, William --
Playing different roles / Billingsley, Doug --
The joint venture / Todd, John --
The Arctic freeway / Klaus, Ed --
Part IV. Modern lives --
The flying doctor / Jeyachandran, Tom --
The highest judge / Marshall, T. David --
Challenging traditional attitudes / Elias, Edna --
Town drunk / Thrasher, Margaret --
From the trapline to the Olympics / Firth, Sharon --
How to get to the north pole/ Jesudason, Bezal.