

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of...
by Jenkins, McKay | HC | VeryGood
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375507213
ISBN-13
9780375507212
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30897584
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine : Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Christian Ministry / Missions, General, Legal History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Religion, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-046433
Reviews
Advance praise forBloody Falls of the Coppermine "An indispensable work of historical reportage brought to the present with haunting immediacy. Part Arctic nöir, part ethnographic sleuthing, and entirely successful as powerful drama, this book will, I believe, be held by readers of novels and history alike in the highest regard. A poignant, disturbing and daring accomplishment." Howard Norman, author ofThe Bird ArtistandIn Fond Remembrance of Me "McKay Jenkins's deft reconstruction of a half-forgotten Arctic murder mystery serves as a haunting parable of the tragic clash between incompatible cultures." David Roberts, author ofFour Against the Arctic "A strong, grim, enthralling account of a violent tragedy in the Far North, thoroughly researched and very well written." Peter Matthiessen
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3/0971955
Synopsis
Journeys to the Canadian Arctic to describe the murders of two Catholic priests during their 1913 mission to the Eskimos of the region, their cannibalization by Inuit hunters, the long and difficult quest to find the killers, and the two trials that followed., In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean. Their fate, and the fate of the people they hoped to teach about God, was about to take a tragic turn. Three days after reaching their destination, the two priests were murdered, their livers removed and eaten. Suddenly, after having survived some ten thousand years with virtually no contact with people outside their remote and forbidding land, the last hunter-gatherers in North America were about to feel the full force of Western justice. As events unfolded, one of the Arctic¿s most tragic stories became one of North America¿s strangest and most memorable police investigations and trials. Given the extreme remoteness of the murder site, it took nearly two years for word of the crime to reach civilization. When it did, a remarkable Canadian Mountie named Denny LaNauze led a trio of constables from the Royal Northwest Mounted Police on a three-thousand-mile journey in search of the bodies and the murderers. Simply surviving so long in the Arctic would have given the team a place in history; when they returned to Edmonton with two Eskimos named Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, their work became the stuff of legend. Newspapers trumpeted the arrival of the Eskimos, touting them as two relics of the Stone Age. During the astonishing trial that followed, the Eskimos were acquitted, despite the seating of an all-white jury. So outraged was the judge that he demanded both a retrial and a change of venue, with himself again presiding. The second time around, predictably, the Eskimos were convicted. A near perfect parable of late colonialism, as well as a rich exploration of the differences between European Christianity and Eskimo mysticism, Jenkins¿s Bloody Falls of the Coppermine possesses the intensity of true crime and the romance of wilderness adventure. Here is a clear-eyed look at what happens when two utterly alien cultures come into violent conflict.
LC Classification Number
E99.E7J46 2005
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