Subject: [baidarka] TV program Herschel Island , Siglit / Inuvialuit
From: Tom (thomas-simpson@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 15:25:27 EDT
Tomorrow evening ( repeating May 5 ) on the Canadian History TV Channel
. Hopefully some kayak info will be mentioned
WORLDS COLLIDE:
HERSCHEL ISLAND
It is easy to overlook Herschel Island, an unassuming speck of land just
off the Yukon coast. It silently lays on the margins of geography,
entrapped in the footnotes of history, a forgotten place frozen in time.
And yet, just over a century ago Herschel was a frontier boom-town, "The
Sodom of the Arctic". A place inhabited by whalers, Inuit, missionaries,
and police, a place of contact and conflict where worlds collide and
lives are changed forever.
It was on Herschel Island that a young Inuvialuit boy, Nuligak (aka Bob
Cockney), came of age--fascinated by Herschel, but also repelled by the
excess of so-called civilization. Through his touching yet tragic
life-story--told through his writings and echoed by his grandchildren's
poignant return to the Island Nuligak once called home--we are offered a
unique view into an often troubling past and a potentially hopeful future.
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