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End-of-Earth People

The Arctic Sahtu Dene

Published March 2014

Description

A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.

Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene, the people referred to as the "Hareskin" in Alexander Mackenzie’s 1793 journal. Having lived among them for over sixty years and as a speaker of their dialect, Brown is well positioned to provide an adventure in history and culture rooted in the Hareskin traditional way of life.



End-of-Earth People, his latest contribution and a valuable record of the North, is a portrait of a people Brown has come to know in ways that anthropologists and ethnologists can only envy.

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Bern Will Brown

Bern Will Brown went to the Canadian Arctic in 1948 as an Oblate priest and travelled extensively by dogteam throughout the region. In the early 1960s, he helped found the Hareskin community of Colville Lake, north of the Arctic Circle. Bern Will Brown passed away on July 4, 2014.

Book Details

Paperback
March 2014
8.25x10.875 in
184 pp
9781459722675
PDF
March 2014
-
184 pp
9781459722682
ePub
March 2014
-
184 pp
9781459722699