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Crow Never Dies
Life on the Great Hunt
Wayfarer
By Larry Frolick
“It was a different crow, but the same crow, you understand? Because there is only one Crow. God made them all black and identical-looking because there is no reason for them to be different birds. That’s why you can never kill a crow, because it lives forever. Crow never dies!” — James Itsi
For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land share intimate bonds. Author Larry Frolick takes the reader deep into one of the last refuges of hunting societies: Canada’s far north. Based on his experiences travelling with First Nations Elders in remote communities across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut, this vivid narrative combines accounts of daily life, unpublished archival records, First Nations' stories and Traditional Knowledge with personal observation to illuminate the northern wilderness, its people, and the complex relationships that exist among them.
Book details
Publication date: July 2016Features: 25 B&W photographs, 1 map, foreword, index
Series: Wayfarer
Keywords: Travel Literature / The North / Indigenous Culture
Subject(s): TRAVEL / Canada / Territories & Nunavut (NT, NU, YT), Creative Writing, Travel Literature, Creative Writing, Literary Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Auto/biography & Memoir, Travel Literature / The North / Indigenous Culture, Anthropology, Travel, Arctic, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Travel Literature / The North / Indigenous Culture
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: July 2016Features: 25 B&W photographs, 1 map, foreword, index
Series: Wayfarer
Keywords: Travel Literature / The North / Indigenous Culture
Subject(s): TRAVEL / Canada / Territories & Nunavut (NT, NU, YT), Creative Writing, Travel Literature, Creative Writing, Literary Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Auto/biography & Memoir, Travel Literature / The North / Indigenous Culture, Anthropology, Travel, Arctic, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Travel Literature / The North / Indigenous Culture
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Larry Frolick. Larry Frolick (1948-2017) travelled and worked in the Arctic from 2005 to 2017. An award-winning author, he wrote about global culture. He worked with the Gwich’in Tribal Council in Inuvik, and was Communications Officer with the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Paul Carlucci.
"...informative, insightful, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and consistently compelling from beginning to end.... Crow Never Dies is unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Canadian Aboriginal Culture reference collections..."
"The author writes with obvious delight, indeed lyricism, about the people and the environment... To potential readers who have a love for the Arctic, its landscapes, seasons, and peoples, I highly recommend this beautifully composed and lyrical description of the traditions and way of life that struggle to keep their place in the modern world."
"[P]art travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, part participant-observation ethnography—and a wholehearted celebration of the North. Crow Never Dies is laid out in four sections, documenting cultural events and subsistence activities associated with each season.... Every chapter is built around personal conversations with Northern elders, hunters, and story-tellers.... [R]eaders looking for a refreshing and off-the-beaten-path look at Canada’s warming North, will not be disappointed by Crow Never Dies."
The Goose, Vol. 15:2
"Larry Frolick sets out to immserse himself in the actual physical place of the North, as opposed to literary and imaginative vesions of it... The resulting volume is part travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, part participant-observation ethnography--and a wholehearted celebration of the North.... Every chapter is built around personal conversations with Northern elders, hunters, and story-tellers."
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards (Adventure & Recreation), United States
Short-listed
2017
Preface
Introduction
WINTER
1 • Perfect Stillness
2 • Hunting Is Trapping
3 • Northern Dogs
4 • The Drunken Forest
5 • Near and Far
SPRING
6 • Ice over Water
7 • The Mystery of the Blue Beads
BREAKUP
8 • Willow Flats
9 • Knife versus Ulu
SUMMER
10 • Berry Picking
11 • King Bear
12 • Powers of the Fantastic
FALL
13 • Thinking like a River
14 • Pure Black
15 • Crow Never Dies
16 • Luck and Nothing
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Selected Reading List
Index
Larry Frolick. Larry Frolick (1948-2017) travelled and worked in the Arctic from 2005 to 2017. An award-winning author, he wrote about global culture. He worked with the Gwich’in Tribal Council in Inuvik, and was Communications Officer with the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Paul Carlucci.
"...informative, insightful, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and consistently compelling from beginning to end.... Crow Never Dies is unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Canadian Aboriginal Culture reference collections..."
"The author writes with obvious delight, indeed lyricism, about the people and the environment... To potential readers who have a love for the Arctic, its landscapes, seasons, and peoples, I highly recommend this beautifully composed and lyrical description of the traditions and way of life that struggle to keep their place in the modern world."
"[P]art travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, part participant-observation ethnography—and a wholehearted celebration of the North. Crow Never Dies is laid out in four sections, documenting cultural events and subsistence activities associated with each season.... Every chapter is built around personal conversations with Northern elders, hunters, and story-tellers.... [R]eaders looking for a refreshing and off-the-beaten-path look at Canada’s warming North, will not be disappointed by Crow Never Dies."
The Goose, Vol. 15:2
"Larry Frolick sets out to immserse himself in the actual physical place of the North, as opposed to literary and imaginative vesions of it... The resulting volume is part travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, part participant-observation ethnography--and a wholehearted celebration of the North.... Every chapter is built around personal conversations with Northern elders, hunters, and story-tellers."
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards (Adventure & Recreation), United States
Short-listed
2017
Preface
Introduction
WINTER
1 • Perfect Stillness
2 • Hunting Is Trapping
3 • Northern Dogs
4 • The Drunken Forest
5 • Near and Far
SPRING
6 • Ice over Water
7 • The Mystery of the Blue Beads
BREAKUP
8 • Willow Flats
9 • Knife versus Ulu
SUMMER
10 • Berry Picking
11 • King Bear
12 • Powers of the Fantastic
FALL
13 • Thinking like a River
14 • Pure Black
15 • Crow Never Dies
16 • Luck and Nothing
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Selected Reading List
Index
