I Will Live For Both of Us Book Event—Thunder Bay

Join author and geographer Warren Bernauer and environmental activist Brennain Lloyd for a reading and discussion of I Will Live For Both of Us.

This event will be hosted at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in Gallery 1.

Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community of Baker Lake successfully stopped a proposed uranium mine. Working with geographer Warren Bernauer and social scientist Jack Hicks, Scottie here tells the history of her community’s decades-long fight against uranium mining.

I Will Live for Both of Us is a reflection on recent political and environmental history and a call for a future in which Inuit traditional laws and values are respected and upheld. Drawing on Scottie’s rich and storied life, together with document research by Bernauer and Hicks, their book brings the perspective of a hunter, Elder, grandmother, and community organizer to bear on important political developments and conflicts in the Canadian Arctic since the Second World War.

Warren Bernauer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Natural Resources Institute and the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba.

Brennain Lloyd is a founding member of Northwatch, a coalition created in the 1980s to organize activists responding to immediate threats and long term policy in this mostly rural and expansive region of the near north of central Canada.