Loon: Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community

by Henry S. Sharp

Book Overview

In August 1975 at Foxholm Lake on the reserve of the Chipewyan, a Northern Dene people, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the anthropologist Henry S. Sharp and two members of the Mission Band encountered a loon. Loons are prized for their meat and skin, so the two Chipewyan tried--thirty times--to kill it. The loon, in a brazen display of power, thwarted these attempts and in doing so revealed itself to be a "spirit." In this book, Sharp embarks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803293216
• ISBN13: 9780803293212
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"