True North rising : my fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North / Whit Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Whit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Canada, Northern--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Canada, Northern--Government relations.

Journalists--Canada, Northern--Biography.

Journalists.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Fraser, Whit.

Canada, Northern--History.

Canada, Northern.

Canada, Northern--Biography.

Northern Canada.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 x 14 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, Ontario] : Random House Canada, [2023]

Summary:

"In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada--including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general. "This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level. . . . I couldn't put it down." --Elizabeth Hay, Giller-winning author of Late Nights on Air In True North Rising, Whit Fraser delivers a smart, touching and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders. Whit had a front-row seat at the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline inquiry, the constitutional conferences and the land-claims negotiations that successfully reshaped the North; he's also travelled to every village and town from Labrador to Alaska. His vivid portraits of groundbreakers such as Abe Okpik, Jose Kusugak, Stephen Kakfwi, Marie Wilson, John Amagoalik, Tagak Curley, and his own wife, Mary Simon, bring home their truly historic achievements, but they also give us a privileged glimpse of who they are, and who Whit Fraser is. He may have begun as a know-nothing reporter from the south, but he soon fell in love with the North, and his memoir is a testament to more than fifty years of commitment to its people."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: DISCOVERY

1. Colonial Justice: White Men in Black Robes

2. Left or Right?: Survival of the Fastest

3. Where's Frobisher Bay?: Always Trust Your Gut

4. Jonah Kelly

-E7-262: I Am Not a Dog

5. Joe Tobie: Treasured Hunts

6. Northern Lights and Wine: At Life's Crossroads

7. Warm Memory Frozen in Time: The Lull Before the Storm

TURBULENCE

8. Bulldozers and Big Dishes: What's a Land Claim?

9. Stars in the Northern Lights: Principles Before Personalities

10. All Equal Now: Berger and the Winds of Change

11. Berger's Southern Hearings: Canada

-Through Their Eyes

12. The Shit Hits the Fan: No Regrets

-But Still Wrong

BUILDERS

13. Cover Girl: The Woman Who Would Become the First Indigenous Governor General

14. Meet the Parents: Like Geese

-Migratory Birds, Mated for Life

15. Viceregal Boot Camp: Our Culture Clash

16. Amaujaq: First Canadian, Canadian First

17. Stephen Kakfwi

-Radical but Right: New Strings on an Old Guitar

18. Changing Canada: The Other John A.

19. Tagak Curley: The Inuit Enigma

20. Charlie Watt: The Comeback Elder

21. Meet My Elders: Duck Soup Is Not on the Menu

22. Glaciers, Grads and Geezers: Climate Change You Can See and Touch.

Notes:

Previously published: Burnstown, Ontario: Burnstown Publishing House, 2018.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fraser, Whit. True north rising.

ISBN:

9781039005594

1039005594

OCLC:

1322232162

Publisher Number:

99993182327