“Our people are very lucky to be here

She encounters racism and ridicule

giving far too little credit to their skills as intermediaries

unqualified designations of religious belonging—whether -Christian- or -Sun Dancer- or -Peyotist—-are seldom

voluntarily or through compulsion

Hunter with Harpoon buffalo “Our people are very luckyPublished fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on