Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut

Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and Aboriginal politicians, and participated in daily life. In Like the Sound of a Drum he looks as three northern communities -- Fort Simpson and Fort Good Hope in Denendeh and Pangnirtung in Nunavut -- and their strategies for maintaining their political and cultural independence. In the face of overwhelming odds, communities such as these have shown remarkable resources for creative resistance. In the process, they are changing the concept of democracy as it is practised in Canada.

Author: Peter Kulchyski
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 305
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780887556869

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 63

About the Author
Kulchyski, Peter: - 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 a senior Canadian scholars in Native Studies. He is the co-editor of In the Words of the Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition and co-author of Tammarniitt [Mistakes]: Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, which won the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory.