From the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman (Economist), a masterful work of
comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our
debt to the natural world
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by
their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it
is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian
Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and
diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building,
pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and
debt,