Description: Title: Paying the Land Author: Sacco, Joe Publisher: Metropolitan Books Binding: Hardcover Pages: 272 Dimensions: 10.60h x 7.50w x 1.10d Product Weight: 2.2 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781627799034 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFrom the "heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman" (Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world 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, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable 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. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: 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 laborers; 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, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture--recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer Stock Photo - Actual Cover May Vary {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}
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Author: Metropolitan Books
Book Title: Metropolitan Books
Language: English
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Artist/Writer: Joe Sacco
Cover Artist: Joe Sacco
Publisher: Henry Holt AND Co.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publication Year: 2020
Character: Gabrielle Mackenzie Scott, Martin Luther King, John, Margaret Jumbo, Gordon Yakeleya, Lawrence Nayally, Valerie Conrad, Rene Fumoleau, Cecile Raymond, Georges Erasmus, Frederick Andrew, Yamozha, Melaw Nakehk'o, Deborah Simmons, Duncan Campbell, Ruby Jumbo, Robert Alexie, Paul Andrew, Stephen Butt, Victor Jumbo, Deneze Nakehk'o, Sir John A. Macdonald, Carol, Father Jean Pochat, Eugene Boulanger, Dennis Banks, Patrick Scott, Minnie Letcher, Dudley Johnson, Shauna, Thomas Berger, Russell Means, Darrell Beaulieu, Laura Boileau, Malcolm X, Jessica, Jim Antoine, Willard Hagen, Douglas Yallee, Edward Jumbo, Harry Deneron, William Greenland, Frank T'seleie, David Etchinelle, Kyla Kakfwi Scott, Jonas Antoine, Stephen Kakfwi, William Morrow, Marie Wilson, Joe Punch, Brenda Jumbo, Amos Scott, Richard Nerysoo, Theresa Etchinelle, Dolphus Jumbo, Peter Redvers
Series Title: Paying the Land
