chipewyan indians

"Joe Sacco travels [to the Mackenzie River Valle] to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to 'remove the Indian from the child'; the destructive process that drove the Denefrom the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture "-- Provided by publisher.

The author, a Chipewyan Dene, describes his efforts to protect the caribou native to his homeland in the Northwest Territories, discusses how he helps scientists monitor the health and migration of the caribou, and shares creation stories that tell how his people are decedents of the caribou.

Twelve-year-old Matthew Dunn learns about the traditional ways of his Chipewyan, Cree, and M?tis ancestors on a trip to Fort Chipewyan, in Alberta, Canada.