About the Book: Paying the Land
In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the heir to R. Crumb
and Art Spiegelman (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of
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-it is
central to their livelihood and their very way of being. But the subarctic
Canadian Northwest Territories are also home to valuable natural resources,
including oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs