Wowsa. This serious work of investigative non-fiction tracks the Giant Mine strike of 1992/93 in stupefying detail.
Dying for Gold — a brilliant chronicle of Yellowknife miners at war
Category: history
Tatsea, a novel, takes us deep into 18th century Tlicho life
A historical novel imagines two eighteenth century lovers forced into exile in and around present day Whati.
Trapping is my Life by John Tetso
Trapping was indeed the life for John Tetso, who writes vividly about his life on the land in this slim 1970 book. “The wind flowing on the face and the smell of campfire smoke are two temptations I can’t resist … and the good solid feeling that you are your own boss.”
Second Nature: The 1985 book that took on the anti-sealing activists
God help the animal rights activist who steps into an elevator with Alan Herscovici.
The Man who Lived with a Giant, stories from Johnny Neyelle
These stories, told in cinematic detail (almost all of them would make amazing graphic novels) feature battles, war, shape-shifters, heroes and heroines and voyages to the spirit world.
As Long as This Land Shall Last: René Fumoleau’s history of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11
Here’s a rare thing: a history book written expressly for the Indigenous people of the N.W.T.
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