Description: UMINGMAK: Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic, by Jake Ootes, Signed, 2020Umingmak - Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic. Ootes, Jake. British Columbia, Canada: Tidewater Press, 2020. Signed by Ootes with an inscription. Stuart Hodgson was appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in 1967, responsible for establishing a government in the frontier capital of Yellowknife. The book is written by his former aide Jake Ootes and is a first-hand account of Hodgson's controversial efforts to introduce self-government to this remote and undeveloped part of the Arctic, while balancing interests of the Dene, Inuit and Metis as well as non-indigenous residents. Photographic illustrations. Softcover, 309 pages, like new condition.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: British Columbia
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Belmore Browne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Topic: Mountaineering
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1956
Original/Facsimile: Original
