Contents, Volume 12 #5

November/December 1994

Dossier

Visions of the North

Canada's Arctic between
its colonial past and
an uncertain future

Leader
We are moving from old abstractions to new images of Canada's north. Peter Larisey SJ (p.2)

The North's Divided Dreams (p.7)

Colonial Past's Stubborn Legacy. Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd

High Arctic Relocation No Random Act. Walter Rudnicki

Northern Defence for Southern Comfort. Ernie Regehr

Oil Exploration Brought Mixed Results. Barry Ferguson

The Aboriginal North (p.14)

North's Inhabitants Reclaim Their History. Keith Crowe

Promising Future for Nunavut. Paul Okalik

Northern Land Claims Map.

Church's Journey with Aboriginal People
Only by admitting our own need for healing can we claim to walk with victims of cultural oppression. Marie Zarowny SSA (p.19)

River of Stone
What was the journey I took? If I could decide, I would perhaps tell you. Rudy Wiebe (p.22)

Stories of the North (p.26)

How to Spot an Inuk. Minnie Aodla Freeman

Song about the Reindeer, Musk Oxen, Women, and Men who Want to Show Off. Netsit

An Old Woman's Song. Akjartoq

Sins. René Fumoleau OMI

Hockey. René Fumoleau OMI

People of the Belcher Islands. Louisa Blair

Hunger. Kingmerut

Circumpolar Map of Indigenous Peoples.

St. Peter the Aleut
What can we say about the story of an Orthodox saint martyred by Jesuits? Joe Mróz SJ (p.31)

Art

Northern Space from Two Perspectives
Unlike Lawren Harris, Luke Anguhadluq does not fit everything into a preconceived spatial cavity. Peter Larisey SJ (p.32)

Film

Eastern Antidote to West's Downer Mood
While Hollywood values raw energy, Chinese, Polish and Russian films serve genuine human aspiration. Marc Gervais SJ (p.35)

Books

The Empty Cathedral
By Jean-Paul Lefebvre.
Where's a Good Church?
By Donald C. Posterski and Irwin Barker.
Reviewed by Robert Foliot SJ (p.39)

Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century
By John G. Stackhouse. Reviewed by Phyllis Kapuscinski NDS (p.41)

Bookshelf Gleanings
Prophetic ecumenical experiment and fount of practical wisdom. (p.43)

Features

Letters
Rolling human wave and insight into human rights. (p.4)

Points
Suicide notes, self-love, breathing in and breathing out. (p.5)

Colloquy
Paying the land for the gifts we receive. Peter Hart (p.34)

Testament
Maccabees, a jar of oil, and the Maya. Robert Chodos (p.38)

Compass Cryptic
Skin condition in rat, British energy and defective spear. (p.45)

Disputatio
Vatican is part of the problem on population. Karen Seabrooke (p.46)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
O estimable and kindly Conrad Black. (p.47)