People of the Deer Andrew Leyerle visual art

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People of the Deer Andrew Leyerle visual artDescription In 1886, the Ihalmiut of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when 25 year old Farley Mowat travelled to the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them, he observed the millennia old migration of the caribou and endured the bleak winters, food shortages and continual, devastating intrusions of interlopers bent on exploiting the Arctic. In this seminal book, Mowat details a genocide wrought by