| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
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Critical studies in Native history ; 21
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Critical studies in native history ; 21.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: A Message From Chief Lorraine Cobiness -- Introduction: Looking Out from Anishinaabe Territory -- Chapter 1: By Water We Ihabit This Place -- Chapter 2: Rising River, Receding Access -- Chapter 3: Power Lost and Power Gained -- Chapter 4: Labouring to Keep the Reserve Alive -- Chapter 5: Waste Accumulation in a Changed River -- Chapter 6: Mother Work and Managing Environmental Change -- Conclusion: So That Our Next Generation Will Know -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the health and economy of their communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories. The same hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral history, and environmental observation, Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Lake of the Woods -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous peoples. |
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Social conditions. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Lake of the Woods -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Water resources development -- Economic aspects -- Lake of the Woods.
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Water resources development -- Economic aspects. |
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Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Lake of the Woods.
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Water resources development -- Environmental aspects. |
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Water-supply -- Lake of the Woods.
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Water-supply. |
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Water security -- Lake of the Woods.
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Water security. |
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Lake of the Woods.
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects. |
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Hydroelectric power plants. |
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Economic aspects -- Lake of the Woods.
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Hydroelectric power plants -- Economic aspects. |
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Lake of the Woods -- Race relations.
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Lake of the Woods -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Economic conditions. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions. |
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Race relations. |
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North America -- Lake of the Woods. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luby, Brittany. Dammed. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2020 0887558747 9780887558740 (OCoLC)1149215643 |
| ISBN |
9780887558757 electronic book |
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0887558763 electronic book |
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9780887558764 (electronic book) |
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0887558755 electronic book |
