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Paying the Land (Hardcover)
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Paying the Land (Hardcover)
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List price R715
Loot Price R591
Discovery Miles 5 910
You Save R124 (17%)
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In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir
to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics
mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource
extraction, and our debt to the natural world *A GUARDIAN BOOK OF
THE YEAR* The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley
since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns
them, not the other way around-it is central to their livelihood
and their very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest
Territories are also home to valuable natural resources, including
oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment-but
also road-building, pipelines and toxic waste, which scarred the
landscape; and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of
life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to
reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of
development. Resource extraction is only part of Canada's colonial
legacy: 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 Dene from the bush into
settlements and turned them into wage labourers; the government
land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill
efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous
landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear
to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, telling a sweeping
story about money and dependency, loss and culture, with stunning
visual detail by one of the greatest comics reporters alive.
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