Dammed : the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe Territory / Brittany Luby.

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Luby, Brittany [Author]

Material type: Text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780887558757
9780887558764

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E99 .D366 2020

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Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: A Message From Chief Lorraine Cobiness -- Introduction: Looking Out from Anishinaabe Territory -- Chapter 1: By Water We Ihabit 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

Subject: "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."--

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"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."--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: A Message From Chief Lorraine Cobiness -- Introduction: Looking Out from Anishinaabe Territory -- Chapter 1: By Water We Ihabit 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

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