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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 White Bird Black Bird
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'The story of the native rights movement in Arctic Canada when southern consumers were pressing for more oil and gas. The story starts with a young journalist working with a Toronto weekly. He is learning his craft but he thinks that there must be more to journalism than covering parent teacher associations and council meetings. Warren leaves the weekly and starts working for the august Globe and Mail. Warren is already having trouble taking care of himself and develops a drink problem. He finds his work at the Globe unrewarding. He joins CBC Northern Service and is sent to Yellowknife to become the north's first locally based trained reporter. Warren arrives just at the native rights movement is getting organised, spurred on by the application to build a gas pipeline over treaty and native land along the Mackenzie River Valley. Warren becomes deeply involved in the clash cultures between the northern natives with their rich traditions of a hunting and trapping society and the energy starved south with its "shopping mall mentality" and belief in its own importance. White Bird Black Bird supplies the reader with an introduction to a unique northern society and the universal problem that is repeated around the world when an imported culture tries to impose its own needs and priorities on a native culture that has its own sense of order and purpose.' (Source: Author's website http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=78603)

Notes

  • Dedication: for Nellie

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Charleston, South Carolina,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Valdemar Robert Wake ,
      2008 .
      Printed/distributed by BookSurge
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      Extent: 522p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 25 October 2008.
      ISBN: 139781439203453

Works about this Work

Miners and Indigenes : Poles Apart in the Tropics and the Tundra Tony Smith , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: AQ : Australian Quarterly , January-February vol. 81 no. 1 2009; (p. 33-36)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose ; Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel ; White Bird Black Bird Valdemar Robert Wake , 2008 single work novel
Miners and Indigenes : Poles Apart in the Tropics and the Tundra Tony Smith , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: AQ : Australian Quarterly , January-February vol. 81 no. 1 2009; (p. 33-36)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose ; Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel ; White Bird Black Bird Valdemar Robert Wake , 2008 single work novel
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