#QuestionMore #RTAmerica #OnContact On Contact: Paying the Land with comics journalist Joe Sacco

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his new book, “Paying the Land.” In the book Sacco travels to the frozen Canadian Northwest Territories to reveal the Dene people in conflict over the costs and benefits of the resource extraction industry and development. The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. #QuestionMore #RTAmerica #OnContact Get exclusive content and watch full episodes now by downloading the Portable.TV app: http://download.rtamerica.tv/ Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTAmerica Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_America