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Sign up todayAgainst the Odds: The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R. Berger
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Learn moreAgainst the Odds chronicles Thomas R. Berger's significant contributions to Indigenous rights advocacy in Canada and the United States. Mid-career, Berger led the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, conducting over thirty community hearings in the Northwest Territories to ensure that First Nations' voices were heard. Later, he also led public hearings on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The accompanying pdf is "Northern Album," a gallery featuring previously unpublished colour photographs of the Dene and Inuvialuit by Michael Jackson KC and Linda MacCannell. This pdf is available at durvile.com.
Drew Ann Wake, Writer and Director Drew Ann Wake is a ๏ฌlm maker and new media artist who began her career with CBC North and the National Film Board in Yellowknife, NWT. She covered the Berger Inquiry from 1975-77 and then worked on the independent documentary, The Inquiry Film, which won the Canadian Film Festival award for Best Documentary. Since 1983, she has created twenty interactive new media productions which have been installed in museums and art galleries in Europe, the US and Canada. She won the Financial Post/Apple Canada Award for Best Interactive Production for Mine Games. Her interactive production on environmental issues, Double Wedding, was runner-up for the Princes Award from the Crown Princes of Denmark and Spain. In 2000, Drew Ann produced an interactive drama on Internet safety, Missing, which won a Smithsonian ComputerWorld award. It has been played by 25,000,000 students in ten countries around the world. For a recent project, Thunder in our Voices, Drew Ann travelled to schools along the Mackenzie River where she taught audio and video skills to high school students. The Thunder exhibition, which has toured in 55 galleries in Canada and the United States, includes twenty of these ๏ฌlms. Drew Ann has also worked as a museum designer, developing exhibitions in Canada as well as the US, England, the Netherlands, Austria and China. She is currently working on the River Journeys exhibition with the Fort Simpson Historical Centre.
Michael Jackson KC is a legal scholar and advocate at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Indigenous rights. His photography appears in the book alongside photography by Linda MacCannell.
Jean Teillet is a prominent Mรฉtis writer, lawyer, and historian, renowned for her work on Indigenous rights and legal history. A descendant of Louis Riel, she has authored influential books and played a key role in advancing Mรฉtis legal recognition in Canada.
Dalee Sambo Dorough is an Alaska Native Indigenous rights advocate and scholar, specializing in international human rights law. As Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, she is a leading voice for Indigenous peoples globally, contributing to UN initiatives on Indigenous issues.
Lorene Shyba PhD is publisher at Durvile & UpRoute Books and series editor of the Durvile True Cases series.ย
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โFor many, the impact of the Berger Inquiry Report, Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland lent credence to the idea that Indigenous voices could and should be heard and taken into account in decisions that affect Indigenous Peoples and their lands. More than 40 years later, development on Indigenous lands continues to be a challenging issue facing Canada and Indigenous People are regularly consulted throughout the process." โ Chief Justice Shannon Smallwood,ย Supreme Court of the NWT.
โThis the story of many remarkable Indigenous people: the hunters in the White and Bob case, the Nisgaโa tribal leaders in the Calder case, the Dene, Mรฉtis, and Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, and the Alaskans in the report of the Alaska Native Review Commission." โHamar Foster KC, from the foreword.ย
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