I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance

I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit ResistanceBorn at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community of Baker Lake successfully stopped a proposed uranium mine. Working with geographer Warren Bernauer and social scientist Jack Hicks, Scottie here tells the history of her community's decades long fight against uranium

A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt

and only English is spoken

skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping―the same mountain where his two older brothers died

Our languages must survive

Using his sense of smell

is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag

and wisdom

yet Geniusz has carried on her legacy by making this body of knowledge accessible to a broader audience

The experiential and community-based art projects described in Outdoor School present an alternative to scientific

egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power

and eternally hopeful

In Road Allowance Era