Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco and Glen Coulthard discuss Paying The Land

By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer Joe Sacco’s new book Paying The Land illustrates and unfolds the stories of the Dane peoples that have lived in the Mackenzie River. Their land in the Northwest Territories has valuable resources and is a central part of the Dene’s livelihood. Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. His work focuses on “fieldwork in conflict zones and places where people are facing displacement and dispossession.” His other books include The Fixer, Notes from a Defeatist, Footnotes in Gaza, and more.  In the book, Sacco travels to Canada to learn about “people in conflict over the…

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