| No Home in a Homeland: Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North Contributor(s): Christensen, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774833955 ISBN-13: 9780774833950 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $37.57 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.01 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - Canadian - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Geographic Orientation - Northwest Territories |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and proposes solutions by interweaving analysis of the region's unique history with personal narratives of homeless men and women in two cities - Yellowknife and Inuvik. What emerges is a larger story of displacement and intergenerational trauma, hope and renewal. Understanding what it means to be homeless in the North and how Indigenous people think about home and homemaking is the first step, Christensen argues, on the path to decolonizing existing approaches and practices. |