Dammed : the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe Territory

Title
  1. Dammed : the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe Territory / Brittany Luby.
Published by
  1. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2020]
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Luby, Brittany

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Description
  1. xi, 239 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "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."--
Series statement
  1. Critical studies in Native history, 1925-5888 ; 21
Uniform title
  1. Critical studies in native history ; 21.
Subject
  1. Indigenous peoples > Lake of the Woods > Social conditions
  2. Indigenous peoples > Lake of the Woods > Economic conditions
  3. Water resources development > Economic aspects > Lake of the Woods
  4. Water resources development > Environmental aspects > Lake of the Woods
  5. Water-supply > Lake of the Woods
  6. Water security > Lake of the Woods
  7. Hydroelectric power plants > Environmental aspects > Lake of the Woods
  8. Hydroelectric power plants > Economic aspects > Lake of the Woods
  9. Ethnic relations
  10. Hydroelectric power plants > Economic aspects
  11. Hydroelectric power plants > Environmental aspects
  12. Indigenous peoples > Economic conditions
  13. Indigenous peoples > Social conditions
  14. Race relations
  15. Water resources development > Economic aspects
  16. Water resources development > Environmental aspects
  17. Water security
  18. Water-supply
  19. Lake of the Woods > Race relations
  20. Lake of the Woods > Ethnic relations
  21. North America > Lake of the Woods
Contents
  1. Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: A Message From Chief Lorraine Cobiness -- Introduction: Looking Out from Anishinaabe Territory -- Chapter 1: By Water We Inhabit 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.
Call number
  1. JFE 21-1909
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230) and index.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Issued also in electronic formats.
Author
  1. Luby, Brittany, author.
Title
  1. Dammed : the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe Territory / Brittany Luby.
Publisher
  1. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2020]
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Critical studies in Native history, 1925-5888 ; 21
  2. Critical studies in native history ; 21.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230) and index.
Additional formats
  1. Issued also in electronic formats.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Luby, Brittany. Dammed. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2020 0887558763 9780887558764 (OCoLC)1150906273
ISBN
  1. 0887558747 (paper)
  2. 9780887558740 (paper)
  3. 9780887559150 (bound)
  4. 0887559158 (bound)
Research call number
  1. JFE 21-1909
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