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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic (Vintage)by: Melanie Mcgrath  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.86 You Save: $2.09 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 305.89712 EAN: 9781400032884 ISBN: 1400032881 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 08, 2008 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: April 08, 2008 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1932, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, director of Nanook of the North. In a narrative rich with human drama, Melanie McGrath follows three generations of the Flaherty family—Robert, Josephie, and Josephie's daughters—to bring this extraordinary tale of deception and harsh deprivation to life. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Riveting, important, and timelyFor anyone who imagines, as I did before reading this book, that the forced relocation of indigenous people in North America was something that happened historically--but not now, not in our lifetimes--The Long Exile is an important wake-up call. The Inuit whose story McGrath tells here were finally allowed the option to leave their involuntary imprisonment on their "reservation" (my term, not hers or theirs) in the most inhospitable lands on Planet Earth other than Antarctica, in ... wait for it ... Read More Rating: - Wow. Powerful and hard to put down. Detailed, yet very readable account of the forcible exile of several Inuit families to the far North. Conditions were execrable, and the overbearing ignorance and paternalism of the white Canadians lasted for years. Not until the 1990s was justice finally done, but too late for many. Hard to put down. Rating: - A must readI just finished this book which I took out of the library new book shelf without any prior knowledge of it. It is a wonderfully told story, both of Robert Flaherty, and of the Inuit. I had not known about Flaherty although I have quite a bit of connection to Upper Michigan where he grew up. The amount of research Ms McGrath has put into this work is very impressive. Now we just need more books like this about other so-called aboriginal peoples. Rating:  - A Nightmare in Muted TonesThe Long Exile could easily have leant itself to melodrama. It's a harsh story, well told, and definitely worth reading. The arc of the Inuit history - their millennium-long adaptation to their environment, the cultural ripples caused by the earliest European arrivals, the eventual idealized view of their hard but "simple" and "happy" existence romanticized accidentally by Robert Flaherty in "Nanook of the North", and the Hudson Bay Company's and Canadian government's determination ... Read More Rating: - High Arctic Horror Story - On TWO LevelsWhile all the reviews I have seen praise Melanie McGrath's The Long Exile for being fascinating, well documented, and different, none of them looked at the second level. At bottom, this is the story of how the government of Canada manipulated people through the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). While most of us in the west think of police as enforcing the law, the RCMP was used to implement social and political policy, deploy civil service directives, and herd people to where government departments ... Read More 
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