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Umingmak: A fine new memoir of N.W.T. Commissioner Stuart Hodgson

I enjoyed this detailed, first-person account of peak colonialism in the N.W.T.

saraminogue history, memoir, non-fiction Leave a comment 23rd Nov 202024th Nov 2020 5 Minutes

Northerners: 24 short, but vivid, biographies from 1989

These 24 capsule biographies from 30 years ago still do the trick.

saraminogue history, non-fiction Leave a comment 4th Nov 20204th Nov 2020 5 Minutes

A Plain Language Guide to the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

Well-written and beautifully packaged.

saraminogue non-fiction, reports Leave a comment 25th Oct 202025th Oct 2020 4 Minutes

The Berger Inquiry, 1970s journalism, and a book that captures it all

This reporter's account rips through the insanity of the Berger inquiry to get to the point: the gripping testimony by northerners, much of which is captured verbatim here. Hard to find, but great reading.

saraminogue history, non-fiction Leave a comment 27th Sep 202017th Oct 2020 5 Minutes

From Lishamie, Albert Canadien’s memoir of a village that no longer exists

I didn’t know that Treaty Day in Fort Providence, N.W.T., was also TB testing day, and I wouldn’t have known it if not for this highly detailed memoir.

saraminogue history, memoir, non-fiction Leave a comment 4th Sep 20204th Sep 2020 3 Minutes

Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land, a raw, dreamy, investigative look at the N.W.T., past and present

Where — I’ve asked myself repeatedly — is the book that sums up the N.W.T., tackles the confusion and history of it and does it in an engaging, complex, real way? It’s here. 

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 9th Jul 2020 4 Minutes

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

“How prepared are we now?” Barry asks, writing sometime in 2004, after finishing his definitive account of the 1918 flu pandemic. His biggest worry had to do with “governments and the truth.”

saraminogue Uncategorized 2 Comments 3rd Apr 202014th Nov 2020 4 Minutes

An Arctic Man, the classic memoir by Hudson Bay Boy Ernie Lyall

This book is an actual classic, or at least the cover of the 2011 re-issue I have says it is, and that cover is right.

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 20th Mar 2020 5 Minutes

Life Among the Qallunaat, a vital memoir by Mini Aodla Freeman

If you want a detailed, human, funny and tragic picture of changing Inuit life in Canada in the 1950s and ‘60s, look no further.

saraminogue Uncategorized Leave a comment 8th Mar 20208th Mar 2020 5 Minutes

An Arctic Arab, or, the story of Peter Baker, free trader

“I, Peter Baker, known as the Arctic Arab, came from Lebanon during the Turkish conquest,” begins this 1976 memoir. 

saraminogue history, memoir Leave a comment 25th Feb 2020 5 Minutes

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