MEMBER BLOG TAG: inuit
| Monday, May 25, 2009 11:37AM | | | | Betrayal of the Inuit | Tags: Inuit, Melanie McGrath, Canada, Arctic
| | | I have just finished reading Melanie McGrath's excellent book, The Long Exile, and I was so moved by it I thought I'd write about it here.
Beautifully written, poignant and engaging, McGrath's book is at once horrifying and hopeful. Her descriptions of the Inuit relationship to place and their fierce will to survive, first, the harsh landscape they so love and, second, the idiocy, cruelty, racism, arrogance and "good intentions" of those whites they find themselves in contact with, are inspiring. (Although, at least in this reader, the book also invoked deep shame as a Canadian, and fury at the treatment these people received.)
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