This volume engages ethnographically with key issues concerning the oil sands by working from anthropological literature and beyond to explore how people struggle to make and hold on to diverse senses of home in the region.

List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: At Home in the Oil Sands; 1. Uncertain Sovereignty: Treaty 8, Bitumen, and Land Claims in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region; 2. Living and Dying through Oil's Promise: The Invisibility of Contamination and Power in Alberta's Peace River Country; 3. Northern Respectability: Whiteness and Improvement in Fort McMurray; 4. Wastelanding the Bodies, Wastelanding the Land: Accidents as Evidence in the Albertan Oil Sands; 5. Wildfire Politics: The Role of a Natural Disaster in Indigenous-State Relations; 6. Bear Stories in the Berry Patch: Caring for Boreal Forest Cycles of Respect; 7. Urban Buffalo: Métis-Bison Relations and Oil Sands Extraction in Northeastern Alberta; 8. Reclaiming Nature? Watery Transformations and Mitigation Landscapes in the Oil Sands Region; Conclusion: Studying the Social and Cultural Impacts of "Extreme Extraction" in Northern Alberta; Index