Friday, we safely made the transition from the Annapolis Valley to Iqaluit, Nunavut. Two flights through well-masked airports. This will be the last blog about the South for a while. (Woke up this morning to blizzard conditions).
From Laura Bright, at the Last Hope Camp.
”A storied landscape is the opposite of a commodity. Commodities are anonymous, interchangeable. They are bought and sold without feeling. The Mi’kmaw people never believed anyone could own Mi’kma’ki. They entered into Treaties of Peace and Friendship with Settlers. They never ceded the land. No indigenous culture treats land as a commodity. Land is sacred. Land is storied. It is time to listen and learn a different way to respect the land and the animals and each other.”
From Edward, CBS News: Fogo Island: Bringing new life to a remote Canadian fishing community (view the video).
The final story about Place is James Rebanks’, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey about farming in the Lake District.
”This is a book about what it means to love and have pride in a place and about how, against all odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral.”
Acknowledgements
Laura Bright for the quotation about storied landscapes. Edward for finding the Fogo Island link. Heather has travelled North with me.
References
James Rebanks, 2020, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey, Custom House.
Postscript
We look forward to rediscovering the changes in Northern life. It has been a couple of years. From the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, Inuit Myths and Legends. Inuitmyths.com
From the bookshelf, Qaunaq Mikkigak and Joanne Schwartz, 2011, The Legend of the Fog, Inhabit Media.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Bob
Good to know you arrived safely in the high north and right in time for the solstice.
Thanks for the reference to the Rebanks book. The first one was great so will be looking for this one.
All best wishes
Brian
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