Author spent time in Iqaluit and she offers an informed perspective on the difficulties facing First Nations
Author spent four months living on impoverished First Nation reserve to give in-depth, portrait of people living in third world conditions
Author offers first person account of PTSD gained while working as a journalist in Kashechewan
Exploration of 2005 international water story and how impoverished reserve fooled the Canadian public, including many details obtained by ATIP, that have never been made public
Analysis of difference between Canadian and U.S. reserve systems and why Canadian Natives are poorer and have world’s highest suicide rates
Brings a detailed understanding and first person account of how the issues currently dominating the news, including the inter-generational impact of the residential schools and the TRC, Bill C-33, affect people on the reserves
Alexandra Shimo’s previous book Up Ghost River was published by Knopf Canada in August 2014; a national bestseller, it won the 2015 CBC Bookie Award for non-fiction and the Donald Grant Creighton Award; it was also a finalist for the Trillium English language award and the Governor General’s Literary Award
Alexandra Shimo is a broadcaster and former editor at Maclean’s. An award-winning journalist, she is the co-author of Up Ghost River, winner of the CBC Bookie and Speaker’s Book Awards for non-fiction. She lives in Toronto.
Bibliographic information
Title
Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve