Paying the land

"Joe Sacco travels [to the Mackenzie River Valle] to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to 'remove the Indian from the child'; the destructive process that drove the Denefrom the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture "-- Provided by publisher.