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Occupied Canada
Book by Hunter, Robert and Robert Calihoo
271 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1991
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Robert Hunter
11 books4 followersLibrarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
Robert "Bob" Lorne Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president. He led the first on-sea anti-whaling campaigns in the world, against Russian and Australian whalers, which helped lead to the ban on commercial whaling. He campaigned against nuclear testing, the Canadian seal hunt and later, climate change with his book Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030. He was named by Time as one of the "Eco-Heroes" of the 20th century and is credited with coining the terms "mindbomb" and "eco-warrior".
Robert "Bob" Lorne Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president. He led the first on-sea anti-whaling campaigns in the world, against Russian and Australian whalers, which helped lead to the ban on commercial whaling. He campaigned against nuclear testing, the Canadian seal hunt and later, climate change with his book Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030. He was named by Time as one of the "Eco-Heroes" of the 20th century and is credited with coining the terms "mindbomb" and "eco-warrior".
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July 3, 2025
I am reading about "Canada" this year, and decided to devote June to Indigenous writing - fiction and non-fiction. After 34 years of living here, it felt like time.
I was - and am - devastated by this book. The very vivid picture of life on reserves, the treatment of indigenous people, is nauseating. There can be no excuses.
The regional history summaries - presumably by Hunter - are repetitive and detract from the book. It is the story of Calihoo and his family that make this a "must read".
I was - and am - devastated by this book. The very vivid picture of life on reserves, the treatment of indigenous people, is nauseating. There can be no excuses.
The regional history summaries - presumably by Hunter - are repetitive and detract from the book. It is the story of Calihoo and his family that make this a "must read".
October 5, 2013
I was looking forward to reading this book and learning more about our First Nations people from someone that has experienced living as a Caucasian youth and then later as an Aboriginal male. The story started out interestingly enough but then as it jumped back into the roots and history of our nation, the telling of our history became very slanted and bias in my opinion. The tel tales are the unnecessary adjectives thrown in to describe "The white man" which included all Europeans that came to this continent.
There's no doubt that Native people were mistreated but the kid of things that kind of had a bad smell to them in this story was, for example, comments like when the Indians hunted the seals to near extinction, who could blame them when the Europeans were paying them so much for each pelt that the Natives could practically buy all the supplies they would need to get through the winter from selling just one seal skin. In other words, according to the authors, it was the Europeans fault for paying the Indians too much. I guess good old human greed was never considered as part of the cause. To me it would have been better to point out the similarity between the White man and the Indian tribes showing that in the end, we're all human beings.
Don't bother with this one. I'll be looking for more honest books to read.
There's no doubt that Native people were mistreated but the kid of things that kind of had a bad smell to them in this story was, for example, comments like when the Indians hunted the seals to near extinction, who could blame them when the Europeans were paying them so much for each pelt that the Natives could practically buy all the supplies they would need to get through the winter from selling just one seal skin. In other words, according to the authors, it was the Europeans fault for paying the Indians too much. I guess good old human greed was never considered as part of the cause. To me it would have been better to point out the similarity between the White man and the Indian tribes showing that in the end, we're all human beings.
Don't bother with this one. I'll be looking for more honest books to read.
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