Title Dammed : the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe Territory / Brittany Luby

Published Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Critical studies in Native history ; 21 Critical studies in native history ; 21. Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: A Message From Chief Lorraine Cobiness -- Introduction: Looking Out from Anishinaabe Territory -- Chapter 1: By Water We Ihabit This Place -- Chapter 2: Rising River, Receding Access -- Chapter 3: Power Lost and Power Gained -- Chapter 4: Labouring to Keep the Reserve Alive -- Chapter 5: Waste Accumulation in a Changed River -- Chapter 6: Mother Work and Managing Environmental Change -- Conclusion: So That Our Next Generation Will Know -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index Summary "Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the health and economy of their communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories. The same hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral history, and environmental observation, Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020) Subject Indigenous peoples -- Lake of the Woods -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples -- Lake of the Woods -- Economic conditions Water resources development -- Economic aspects -- Lake of the Woods Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Lake of the Woods Water-supply -- Lake of the Woods Water security -- Lake of the Woods Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Lake of the Woods Hydroelectric power plants -- Economic aspects -- Lake of the Woods HISTORY -- Native American. Ethnic relations Hydroelectric power plants -- Economic aspects Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects Indigenous peoples -- Economic conditions Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Race relations Water resources development -- Economic aspects Water resources development -- Environmental aspects Water security Water-supply SUBJECT Lake of the Woods -- Race relations Lake of the Woods -- Ethnic relations Subject North America -- Lake of the Woods Form Electronic book ISBN 9780887558757 0887558763 9780887558764 0887558755 9780887558740 0887558747

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