THE DISPOSSESSED - Life and Death in Native Canada
York, Geoffrey (foreword by Thomson Highway)
Language: English
Published by Vintage UK, London, 1990
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- Softcover
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(xiv) 291 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with two small dents in the upper right of the front cover and minor creasing on the spine. The Chapters are: Shamattawa: The Gasoline Plague; From Lytton to Sabaskong Bay: Fighting for the Schools; Inside the Reserves; Hobbema: Oil and Suicide; Defence of the North: The Native Economy and Land Claims; Foreign Justice: Native People and the Law; Alkali Lake: Resisting Alcohol; From Manitoba to Massachusetts: The Lost Generation; The New Militancy; The Fifth Generation; and September 1990. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- THE DISPOSSESSED - Life and Death in Native Canada
- Author
- York, Geoffrey (foreword by Thomson Highway)
- Publisher
- Vintage UK, London
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0099825406
- ISBN 13
- 9780099825401
- Edition
- First Printing - First Thus.
- Seller catalogs
- History - Canada
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Geoffrey York is a Globe and Mail reporter and the author of The Dispossessed: Life and Death in Native Canada. He has covered aboriginal issues for more than seven years, travelling to 45 native communities in every region of the country. Nominated for a National Newspaper Award in 1988 for his investigation of the problems of adopted native children, he was the Globe's bureau chief in Winnipeg from 1986 to 1990 and then was a reporter at Parliament Hill.
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