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1 For further information on the histories of housing, home, and the Canadian Social Welfare State, read George Blondin, When the World Was New: Stories of the Sahtu Dene (Yellowknife: Outcrop, 1990); M. Watkins, Dene Nation, the Colony Within (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977); and F. Tester and P. Kulchyski, Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939–63 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011).
2 A. Brockman, “How Fort Good Hope Is Faring as It Tackles a Housing Crisis,” CBC North Online, March 5, 2019, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fort-good-hope-housing-crisis-next-steps-1.5042791.
3 D. K. Thomas and C. T. Thompson, Eskimo Housing as Planned Culture Change, vol. 4 (Ottawa: Northern Science Research Group, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1972).
4 J. Christensen, No Home in a Homeland: Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017).
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Julia Christensen
Julia Christensen is a settler-scholar of Danish and Irish ancestry, born and raised on Chief Drygeese territory in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She is currently a Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy at Memorial University. She is a social and cultural geographer, and she works in collaboration with northern and Indigenous communities on research related to northern housing and home. She is the author of No Home in a Homeland: Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North (UBC Press, 2017) and is coeditor of Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing and Relationship (WLUP Press, 2018).