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[2020 non-fiction book by Brittany Luby] [date=April 2022] {{Infobox book |
author = Brittany Luby | language = English | published = 2020 | publisher =
University of Manitoba Press | country = Canada | isbn = 9780887558740 |
media_type = Print | pages = 256 | genre = Indigenous history; Environmental
history | subject = Industrial development | name = Dammed: The Politics of
Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory | image = Dammed Cover 2020.jpg |
awards = CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize }}
_DAMMED: THE POLITICS OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL IN ANISHINAABE TERRITORY_ is a 2020
book by Brittany Luby, associate professor of history at the University of
Guelph.[1] The book charts the impacts of the damming of the Winnipeg River in
the Lake of the Woods region on the local Anishinaabe population, focusing in
particular on the Dalles 38C reserve located downstream from Kenora, Ontario.
** Contents
Luby, drawing on both archival and oral sources, presents the history of the
local Anishinaabe population at the Dalles 38C from the second half of the
twentieth century, when the Winnipeg River was first dammed at Kenora to power
a paper and pulp mill, through to the 1960s, when the construction of the
Whitedog Falls hydroelectric generating station further upstream was
completed.[2] Luby argues that even after settler-colonial encroachment the
Anishinaabe were socially and economically sustainable at Dalles 38C; however,
the damming of the Winnipeg River, seen as key to the modernization of Kenora
and Ontario, degraded the local environment and undermined the local
Anishinaabe society.[3]
The book first charts the ways in which colonial authorities undermined
Anishinaabe riparian rights, which appear to have been enshrined in Treaty 3,
in order to proceed with industrial development. Luby then examines the
impact of such developments on local transportation, labour opportunities,
water quality, and reproductive health, among other things.
_Dammed_ challenges long-held tenets of Canadian historiography, such as the
centre-periphery model – Luby recasts Anishinaabe territory as its own centre,
as opposed to colonial conceptions of it being on the periphery of Canada's
centre – and the notion of the postwar period as launching an affluent
society. On the latter, Luby writes:<blockquote>"This book makes clear that
Indigenous Peoples did not form part of Canada’s affluent society after 1945.
Instead, it demonstrates how federal and provincial actors removed resources
from Indigenous communities and reduced the income-generating potential of
Indigenous families specifically to benefit Anglo-settlers generally. Postwar
Canada was not an affluent society; it was (and it remains) a colonial
one."[4]</blockquote>_Dammed_ has been lauded for its methodology and in
particular for centering Anishinaabe oral testimony. Writing in the _Canadian
Historical Review_, Jean L. Manqre noted that such an approach enables Luby
to avoid focusing on victimization and to instead emphasize dynamic forms of
Indigenous resistance in the face of environmental change.<ref name=":0" />
** Awards
_Dammed_ won three awards from the Canadian Historical Association in 2021:
the CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize as the best book in
Canadian history; the Indigenous History Book Prize as the best book in
Indigenous history; and the Clio Prize for Ontario as the best book in Ontario
History.[5] The book was also awarded the 2020 Floyd S. Chalmers Award as the
best book in Ontario history by the Champlain Society.[6] In 2022, _Dammed_
was awarded the Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize by the
Network in Canadian History and Environment.[7]
** See also
- Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation
- Hydroelectricity in Canada
** References
References:
[1]. [title=Brittany Luby [!] College of Arts]
[2]. [last=Henderson]
[3]. [last=Manqre]
[4]. [last=Luby]
[5]. [title=CHA Prizes]
[6]. [title=Chalmers Award [!] The Champlain Society]
[7]. [last= ]
** External links
- _Dammed_ at University of Manitoba Press (see https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/dammed)
- Author's webpage at University of Guelph (see https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/brittany-luby)
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