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Social Science Native American Studies

Arctic Twilight

Reflections on the Destiny of Canada's Northern Land and People

by (author) Kevin McMahon

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550280913
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550280920
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $45.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552772829
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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Description

Fifty years ago the Inuit of Canada's Arctic lived lives whose patterns had changed little for hundreds of years. When the United States' military intruded during the Second World War those patterns changed, immediately and irrevocably.

Kevin MacMahon set out to gauge the nature and extent of that change and found that modern technology--from machine guns to television--were destroying ways of life that had been patiently constructed over centuries: "Theirs was a world without borders and with few expressions of power. This world was instantly and radically transformed by the arrival of the American armed forces and Canadian bureaucracies that blew into the north like a wind of steel."

Arctic Twilight is a sensitive, lyrical portrait of a proud and resourceful people who have been victimized by the forces of technology and by the governments that rule over them.

About the author

KEVIN MCMAHON is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and broadcaster who has produced work for the CBC and BBC. He has long been interested in the impact of technology on the North. He lives in Toronto.

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