Like the Sound of a Drum
by Peter Kulchyski

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“For many people, the Canadian north may be seen as the most far-flung sort of backwater, on the furthest colonial margin; yet it is precisely here that the latest theoretical constructs find themselves well tested and it is here that our ability to think the political has to be stretched to, and perhaps beyond, its limits. It is here, this kind of place, that has the most to teach us today about the political project of democratic government.” –Peter Kulchyski

An epochal tragedy is taking place in our time with the totalitarian destruction of Aboriginal cultures. In the face of overwhelming odds, Aboriginal communities have shown remarkable resources for creative resistance. In the process, they are challenging the concept of democracy as it is practised in Canada.

In Like the Sound of a Drum, Peter Kulchyski brings new primary research and contemporary political theory to the study of Aboriginal politics in Denendeh and Nunavut. Part ethnography, part theory, part narrative, Kulchyski uses first-hand interviews and stories from the Dene communities of Fort Simpson and Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories and the Inuit community of Pangnirtung (Panniqtuuq), Nunavut, to draw out the strengths of local cultures and their strategies for resistance to the imposed political policies and structures of the State.

“Splendidly and engagingly written ... Kulchyski involves two simultaneous conversations. One occurs face-to-face with Aboriginal elders and storytellers such as George Blondin, Bella T’Seleie, and Louis Norwegian; another is with the writings of Plutarch, Marx, Sartre, Taussig, and many others about human communications and what this means for politics.” –Julie Cruikshank, author of The Social Life of Stories

“Kulchyski carefully juxtaposes impersonal scholarly macropolitical analysis in the Southern mode with passionate, personal, poetic and humorous micropolitical storytelling in the Northern manner. This work is not only important, but moving and beautiful.” –Gad Horowitz, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, University of Toronto

Peter Kulchyski grew up in northern Manitoba and was one of the few non-Aboriginal students to attend a government-run residential high school. He has a PhD from York University and is one of the senior Canadian scholars in Native Studies. He is the co-author of In the Words of the Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition and co-editor of Tammarnitt [Mistakes]: Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, which won the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory. He is the head of the department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Contents: History of public government in the north • Legal status of the Inuit and Dene • Land claims negotiations in the NWT and Nunavut • Contemporary social and political theory • Aboriginal self-government • Territorial governments • Animal rights, hunting, and northern Aboriginal economics

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Weight:	0.47 kg
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ISBN-10:	0887556868
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780887556869
Author:	Peter Kulchyski
Publisher:	University of Manitoba Press Winnipeg
Publication Date:	10/2005
Pages:	300 pp
Size/Dimensions:	6 x 9
Binding:	Paperback

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Like the Sound of a Drumby Peter Kulchyski

Like the Sound of a Drum
by Peter Kulchyski