Fraser Whit - True North Rising My Fifty - Year Journey With The Inuit And Dene Leaders Who Transformed Canada's North - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Mac Kenzie 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.
Title: True North Rising My Fifty - Year Journey With The Inuit And Dene Leaders Who Transformed Canada's North
Author(s): Fraser Whit
Publisher: Random House Canada
Barcode: 9781039005594
Pages: 336 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 1/31/2023
Category: Memoirs