End-of-Earth People

A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada's far-North Sahtu region.

Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene, the people referred to as the "Hareskin" in Alexander Mackenzie's 1793 journal. Having lived among them for over sixty years and as a speaker of their dialect, Brown is well positioned to provide an adventure in history and culture rooted in the Hareskin traditional way of life.

End-of-Earth People, his latest contribution and a valuable record of the North, is a portrait of a people Brown has come to know in ways that anthropologists and ethnologists can only envy.

Auteur
Bern Will Brown went to the Canadian Arctic in 1948 as an Oblate priest and travelled extensively by dog team throughout the region. In the early 1960s, he helped found the Hareskin community of Colville Lake, north of the Arctic Circle. He still resides in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories.