The right to be cold : one woman's fight to protect the Arctic and save the planet from climate change
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila2018
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For the first 10 years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier travelled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her native Nunavik, a region that is part of the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. In Inuktitut, the language of Inuit, the elders say that the weather is Uggianaqtuq - behaving in strange and unexpected ways. This book is Watt-Cloutier's memoir of growing up in the Arctic reaches of Quebec during these unsettling times. It is the story of an Inuk woman finding her place in the world, only to find her native land giving way to the inexorable warming of the planet. She decides to take a stand against its destruction. 'The Right to Be Cold' is the story of life on the front lines of climate change, told by a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential Indigenous environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world.
Main title:
The right to be cold : one woman's fight to protect the Arctic and save the planet from climate change / Sheila Watt-Cloutier ; foreword by Bill McKibben.
Author:
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila, author
Imprint:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Collation:
xxvi, 337 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Canada: Penguin Canada Books, 2015.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781517904975 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
363.70092
Local class:
B- WAT
Language:
English
Subject:
Watt-Cloutier, SheilaEnvironmentalists -- Canada -- BiographyHuman rights workers -- Canada -- BiographyInuit women -- Canada -- BiographyInuit -- Canada -- Social conditionsEnvironmental protection -- Arctic regionsClimatic changes -- Arctic regionsArctic regions -- Environmental conditionsBiography
BRN:
1141829
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