People of the Deer Andrew Leyerle visual art

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“Reading the text was like diving into the eternity of dreams and being paralyzed by a nightmare

And so over the month of September

Using her own family’s story as a touchstone

also serving as prime minister for much of that time

People of the Deer Andrew Leyerle visual artDescription In 1886, the Ihalmiut of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when 25 year old Farley Mowat travelled to the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them, he observed the millennia old migration of the caribou and endured the bleak winters, food shortages and continual, devastating intrusions of interlopers bent on exploiting the Arctic. In this seminal book, Mowat details a genocide wrought by