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

by Fraser, Whit.

Random House Canada, 2023.

971.903092 F842t

First Nations -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions.

First Nations -- Canada, Northern -- Government relations.

Journalists -- Canada, Northern -- Biography.

Canada, Northern -- History.

Canada, Northern -- Biography.

9781039005594 (Random House 2023 pbk.)

9781772572254 (Burnside 2018 pbk.)

308 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

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

Includes index.

"In this memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with 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. 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."--Adapted from publisher marketing.

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