According to Tim Querengesser in an article about the conflicting attitudes toward Mowat, "People of the Deer" and his later books, fueled increasing interest in the North. Some Northerners, such as Jim Bell, editor of the "Nunatsiaq News" in Iqaluit, agree that Mowat got some facts wrong, but believe that his ends justified his means: “There are people alive today who would likely be dead or not even be born if Farley Mowat had not written about the famines in the Keewatin region in the 1950s...That is a legacy that can never be taken away from him.”