{"product_id":"paying-the-land","title":"Paying the Land","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE GUARDIAN,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE BROOKLYN RAIL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE GLOBE AND MAIL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePOP MATTERS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCOMICS BEAT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, AND \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePaying the Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to “remove the Indian from the child”; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePaying the Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture―recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42478615494745,"sku":"9781627799034","price":21.65,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9781627799034.jpg?v=1751551071","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/fr\/products\/paying-the-land","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}