True north rising : my fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North

In this memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada--including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general.

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ISBN: 9781039005594 (pbk.)
Physical Description 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

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True North Rising : My Fifty-Year Journey with the Inuit and Dene Leaders Who Transformed Canada's North

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True North Rising : My Fifty-Year Journey with the Inuit and Dene Leaders Who Transformed Canada's North

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Preface	1
	Discovery
1	Colonial Justice: White Men in Black Robes	7
2	Left or Right?; Survival of the Fastest	21
3	Where's Frobisher Bay?: Always Trust Your Gut	29
4	Jonah Kelly-E7-262: I Am Not a Dog	39
5	Joe Tobie: Treasured Hunts	50
6	Northern Lights and Wine: At Life's Crossroads	65
7	Warm Memory Frozen in Time: The Lull Before the Storm	75
	Turbulence
8	Bulldozers and Big Dishes; What's a Land Claim?	81
9	Stars in the Northern Lights: Principles Before Personalities	93
10	All Equal Now: Berger and the Winds of Change	113
11	Berger's Southern Hearings: Canada-Through Their Eyes	124
12	The Shit Hits the Fan: No Regrets-But Still Wrong	131
	Builders
13	Cover Girl: The Woman Who Would Become the First Indigenous Governor General	151
14	Meet the Parents: Like Geese-Migratory Birds, Mated for Life	168
15	Viceregal Boot Camp: Our Culture Clash	178
16	Amaujaq: First Canadian, Canadian First	190
17	Stephen Kakfwi-Radical but Right: New Strings on an Old Guitar	205
18	Changing Canada: The Other John A.	223
19	Tagak Curley: The Inuit Enigma	241
20	Charlie Watt: The Comeback Elder	254
21	Meet My Elders: Duck Soup Is Not on the Menu	267
22	Glaciers, Grads and Geezers: Climate Change You Can See and Touch	281
	Postscript	297
	Acknowledgements	301
	Index of Proper Names	303

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