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Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Drawing on Samuel Hearne’s gruesome account of an alleged massacre at Bloody Falls in 1771, Emilie Cameron reveals how Qablunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) have used stories about the Arctic for over two centuries as a tool to justify ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. Rather than expecting Inuit to counter these narratives with their own stories about their homeland, Cameron argues that it is the responsibility of Qablunaat to develop new relationships with northerners – ones grounded in the political, cultural, economic, environmental, and social landscapes of the contemporary Arctic.
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Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Drawing on Samuel Hearne’s gruesome account of an alleged massacre at Bloody Falls in 1771, Emilie Cameron reveals how Qablunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) have used stories about the Arctic for over two centuries as a tool to justify ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. Rather than expecting Inuit to counter these narratives with their own stories about their homeland, Cameron argues that it is the responsibility of Qablunaat to develop new relationships with northerners – ones grounded in the political, cultural, economic, environmental, and social landscapes of the contemporary Arctic.
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Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic

Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic

by Emilie Cameron
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic

Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic

by Emilie Cameron

Overview

Drawing on Samuel Hearne’s gruesome account of an alleged massacre at Bloody Falls in 1771, Emilie Cameron reveals how Qablunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) have used stories about the Arctic for over two centuries as a tool to justify ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. Rather than expecting Inuit to counter these narratives with their own stories about their homeland, Cameron argues that it is the responsibility of Qablunaat to develop new relationships with northerners – ones grounded in the political, cultural, economic, environmental, and social landscapes of the contemporary Arctic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780774828840
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 06/01/2015
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: (w) x (h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Emilie Cameron is assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University.

Table of Contents

Hivuniqhuut, Preface

1 Summer Stories

2 Ordering Violence

3 To Mourn

4 Copper Stories

5 Resistance Stories

6 Toward an Emerging Past

7 Ptarmigan Stories

Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Clayton

In this engrossing and morally spirited book, Emilie Cameron examines Indigenous and newcomer understandings of the Canadian North through narratives of cultural exchange and colonial violence and their material consequences. Alert to how colonial stories about the Arctic maintain an insidious grip on the present, and why we ignore them at our peril, Far Off Metal River is a remarkable and ultimately hopeful work that will inspire debate at a variety of postcolonial sites about the complex links between place, power, memory, storytelling, and affect.

Bruce Braun

A brilliant and unsettling meditation on our relation to northern lands and peoples. Far Off Metal River teaches us to be responsible to the origins and purposes of our stories, to acknowledge their limits, and to see the North as full of stories that are not ours to know. A "must-read" in the face of renewed Canadian claims to Inuit lands and resources.

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