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By Komar, Debra2019., Dundurn Call No: IND 364.1523 K75c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1921, the RCMP arrested two Copper Inuit men under suspicion that the two had murdered their uncle. Both men confessed to the crime through a police interpreter, though the "confession" was highly questionable. The Canadian government used the case to plant their flag in the north, but the trial quickly became a master class in judicial error. Correspondence among the key players reveals that the trial's outcome was decided months before the court was even convened. Authorities were so certain of a conviction that the executioner and gallows were sent north before the trial began. The precedent established Canada's legal relationship with the Inuit, who would spend the next seventy-seven years fighting to regain their autonomy and Indigenous rule of law. Drawing on documents long buried in restricted files in the National Archives, The Court of Better Fiction reveals the disgraceful incident and its fallout in unprecedented detail."--.
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2006., Fourth Estate Call No: 971.9 M147l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1922 Robert Flaherty, the Irish-American explorer, made a film about the Canadian Arctic. Nanook of the North starred a mythical Eskimo hunter who lived in an igloo with his family in an Arctic Eden of spring flowers and polar bears. Nanook's story captured the world's imagination. The film was shown in Paris, Beijing and New York, and, for a while, Nanook's face beamed from packets of flour and ice-cream as far away as Australia and Scotland. In Malaysia, Nanook became a word meaning 'strong man'." "Two years after the release of the film, the man who played Nanook - the Inuit hunter Alakariallak - starved to death on the Arctic ice. By this time, Robert Flaherty had quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph Flaherty, to grow up Eskimo." "Thirty years later, in 1953, a young and inexperienced Irish-Canadian policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list of Inuit who were to be experimentally resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Joseph Flaherty and his family were on that list. They were told they were going to an Arctic Eden of spring flowers and polar bears." "In this new book, Melanie McGrath, acclaimed author of the bestselling Silvertown, recounts Joseph Flaherty's true story, revealing the shocking reality behind the broken promises."--BOOK JACKET.
