num_pages: 294
description: The Canadian subarctic is a world of forest, prairie, and muskeg; of rainbow trout, moose, and caribou; of Indian hunters and trappers. It is also a world of boomtowns and bars, oil rigs and seismic soundings; of white energy speculators, ranchers, and sports hunters. Brody came to this dual world with the job of "mapping" the lands of northwest British Columbia as well as the way of life of a small group of Beaver Indians with a viable hunting economy living in the path of a projected oil pipeline. The result is Maps and Dreams, Brody's account of his extraordinary eighteen-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past. In this beautifully written book, readers go on a moose hunt; trap beaver; mourn at a funeral; drink in white bars; visit camps, cabins, and traplines by pickup truck, on horseback, and on foot. Brody's powerful commentary also retraces the history of the ever-expanding white frontier from the first eighteenth-century explorer to the wildest corporate energy dreams of the present day. In the process, readers see how Indian dreams and white dreams, Indians maps and white maps, collide. Titles of related interest available from Waveland Balikci, The Netsilik Eskimo (ISBN 9780881334357); Jarvenpa, Northern Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene (ISBN 9780881339901); Kawagley, A Yupiaq A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577663843); and Ziker, Peoples of the Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist Transition (ISBN 9781577662129).
language: English
title: Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier
titlecomplete: Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier
genres: Nature, History, Geography, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 145
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize
publisher: Waveland Press