Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Luby, Brittany

Publication

• Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xi, 239 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"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

Critical studies in Native history, 1925-5888 ; 21

Uniform Title

Critical studies in native history ; 21.

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Lake of the Woods > Social conditions
• Indigenous peoples > Lake of the Woods > Economic conditions
• Water resources development > Economic aspects > Lake of the Woods
• Water resources development > Environmental aspects > Lake of the Woods
• Water-supply > Lake of the Woods
• Water security > Lake of the Woods
• Hydroelectric power plants > Environmental aspects > Lake of the Woods
• Hydroelectric power plants > Economic aspects > Lake of the Woods
• Ethnic relations
• Hydroelectric power plants > Economic aspects
• Hydroelectric power plants > Environmental aspects
• Indigenous peoples > Economic conditions
• Indigenous peoples > Social conditions
• Race relations
• Water resources development > Economic aspects
• Water resources development > Environmental aspects
• Water security
• Water-supply
• Lake of the Woods > Race relations
• Lake of the Woods > Ethnic relations
• North America > Lake of the Woods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Contents

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

JFE 21-1909

ISBN

• 0887558747
• 9780887558740
• 9780887559150
• 0887559158

OCLC

1149215643

Author

Luby, Brittany, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical studies in Native history, 1925-5888 ; 21

Critical studies in native history ; 21.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230) and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Other Form:

Online version: Luby, Brittany. Dammed. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2020 0887558763 9780887558764 (OCoLC)1150906273

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1909