People of the Deer
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- D & M Publishers
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781771000451
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Indigenous peoples of CanadaArctic explorationCultural decline and colonialism
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1953)
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