A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
This is a story of the grassroots taking on Goliath, of a slide show galvanizing the citizenry, of unlikely cross-cultural alliances forming across vast distances. It is a history written during an urgent time, infused with hope that things might still turn out differently.
As a public history project and companion to Defending the Arctic Refuge, this website shares source materials related to the book and the broader history of the Arctic Refuge struggle. In addition to featuring a recently-digitized version of the Last Great Wilderness slide show, the site includes a detailed timeline and a diverse array of primary sources.
Accolades
Defending the Arctic Refuge received the 2022 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America, the 2022 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for Best Western Environmental History from the Western History Association, and the 2022 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize from the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
The Slide Show
Timeline
Sources
Events & Writings
Book & Author
Purchase Book
Funding for this website project provided by the Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies (Trent University) and an
internal SSHRC Exchange Grant—Knowledge Mobilization Activities (Trent University).
Content Development and Research Assistance by Andrew Hoyt. Project Management by Elisabeth Balster Dabney. Design by Frolic Design.
Photographs on this page by Subhankar Banerjee and Peter Mather (book cover image).