On Herschel Island, a young Inuvialuk boy, Nuligak, came of age. Fascinated by Herschel, but equally repelled by the excess or so-called civilization. Through Nuligak's touching yet tragic life story, we are offered a unique view into a troubling past and a hopeful future.
Runs 69 mins 33 seconds
Produced by Inuvialuit Communications Society, History Television, APTN
Herschel Island is a small, unassuming parcel of land just off the Yukon coast. It lies silently on the margins of geography, entrapped in the footnotes of history, a forgotten place frozen in time. And yet, just over a century ago, Herschel was a frontier boom-town, labelled “The Sodom of the Arctic”.… Read more
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