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Eddy Weetaltuk. From the Tundra to the Trenches. Edited by Thibault Martin. U of Manitoba P, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-88755-822-1. 210 pp.
Eddy Weetaltuk's book is the fourth in a series, First Voices, First Texts, from the University of Manitoba Press. Its very publication is an interesting story, because the manuscript was lost in the Canadian Museum of History for twenty-six years. After it resurfaced, Weetaltuk worked with Thibault Martin to revise the manuscript that he started in 1974. This collaboration is fully documented in the book, and the book was finished in 2005, when Weetaltuk died. Unfortunately, it then languished until it was picked up by the University of Manitoba...