I will live for both of us : a history of colonialism, uranium mining, and Inuit resistance / Joan Scottie, Warren Bernauer, and Jack Hicks.

I will live for both of us : a history of colonialism, uranium mining, and Inuit resistance / Joan Scottie, Warren Bernauer, and Jack Hicks.

By
Scottie, Joan.

Publication Date
2022

Publication Information
Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press,

Volume
9

Physical Description
x, 252 p. : ill., maps.

Subject Term
Uranium industry -- Environmental aspects -- Nunavut.
 
Environmental protection -- Nunavut.
 
Inuit -- Civil rights.
 
Inuit -- Nunavut -- Social conditions.
 
Uranium industry.
 
Inuit women -- Nunavut -- Biography.
 
Inuit -- Nunavut.
 
Environmental protection.
 
Inuit.
 
Inuit -- Social conditions.
 
Inuit women.

Series
CONTEMPORARY STUDIES ON THE NORTH ;

Additional Contributors
Bernauer, Warren.
 
Hicks, Jack, 1958-

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.

Summary
Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community of Baker Lake successfully stopped a proposed uranium mine. Working with geographer Warren Bernauer and social scientist Jack Hicks, Scottie here tells the history of her community's decades-long fight against uranium mining. Scottie's I Will Live for Both of Us is a reflection on recent political and environmental history and a call for a future in which Inuit traditional laws and values are respected and upheld. Drawing on Scottie's rich and storied life, together with document research by Bernauer and Hicks, their book brings the perspective of a hunter, Elder, grandmother, and community organizer to bear on important political developments and conflicts in the Canadian Arctic since the Second World War. In addition to telling the story of her community's struggle against the uranium industry, I Will Live for Both of Us discusses gender relations in traditional Inuit camps, the emotional dimensions of colonial oppression, Inuit experiences with residential schools, the politics of gold mining, and Inuit traditional laws regarding the land and animals.

Language
English

ISBN
9780887552656

ISSN
19281722


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