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A review by paradisecreated
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
4.5
A deeply empathetic and thorough telling of Dene experience *from colonisation* onwards. I appreciated how much it was just the words of the people, even and especially when their perspectives differed widely, and how there was still so much space given to sharing what life had been like for them pre colonial intrusion.
Sacco’s line about a (white) people who take from the land without prayer or ceremony, and pay it back with arsenic, in contrast to Eugene Boulanger sharing his experience with the caribou and feeling in the thread of his ancestors, is going to sit with me for a long, long time.
Sacco’s line about a (white) people who take from the land without prayer or ceremony, and pay it back with arsenic, in contrast to Eugene Boulanger sharing his experience with the caribou and feeling in the thread of his ancestors, is going to sit with me for a long, long time.