Peter Kulchyski grew up in northern Manitoba, Canada and was one of the few non-Aboriginal students to attend a government-run residential high school. He has a PhD from York University, UK and is a senior Canadian scholars in Native Studies. He is the co-editor of In the Words of the Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition and co-author of Tammarniitt [Mistakes]: Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, which won the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
"A number of timelines are converging on the Canadian north, which
gives Like the Sound of a Drum considerable currency. Global
climate change could have an enormous impact on Arctic lands and
lifestyles. Canadian sovereignty issues make the Arctic a region of
strategic importance. But the resource potential of the far north -
in particular its oil and gas reserves - is the subject of most
current attention. The demand down south, the resources have to
move, and the pipeline routes run through Aboriginal territories.
Kulchyski notes that the Aboriginal self-government machinery in
Canada has generated both an enormous discourse and library of
academic, legal, and bureaucratic texts, among the ranks of which,
he adds, "this book may now be included." However, his book is
unlike most of the others, it is worth reading for its relevance
and uniqueness."--Katherine Beatty Chiste "American Indian Culture
and Research Journal, 2006, vol 30, issue 4"
"Beyond the passionate and moving stories that illuminate the
cultural and political transitions occurring today within northern
aboriginal communities, Like the Sound of a Drum is also perhaps
the first great book of southern ethics."-- "Topia, Fall 2006"
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