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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie

People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie

Seesequasis, Paul
Macfie, John

Paperback

Canadian HistoryGeneral ArtGeneral Photography

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1773272608
ISBN13: 9781773272603
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.30
Language: English
John Macfie's vivid and stirring photographs show a way of life on full display--the world my ancestors inhabited and that my mom fondly described to me. It is a world that, shortly after these pictures were taken, ended. So distant and yet achingly familiar, these pictures feel like a visit home.
--Jesse Wente, Anishinaabe broadcaster, arts leader, and author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

While working as a trapline manager in Northern Ontario during the 1950s and 1960s, John Macfie, a Canadian of Scottish heritage, formed deep and lasting relationships with the people of the Indigenous communities in the region. As he travelled the vast expanse of the Hudson Bay watershed, from Sandy Lake to Fort Severn to Moose Lake and as far south as Mattagami, he photographed the daily

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