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Living on the land change among the Inuit of Baffin Island /

A personalized ethnography describing the Tununermiut, Inuit people from the Pond Inlet region of the northern tip of Baffin Island Northwest Territories from 1963 to the present. The description is of the hunting gathering (camp life) that existed a decade ago, changes as a result of outside influe...

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Main Author: Matthiasson, John S.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Peterborough, Canada ; Lewiston, NY : Broadview Press, [1992]
Physical Description: 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island.
Table of Contents:
  • Becoming like an Inuit? / A whaling we will go
  • Pre-contact Period
  • The whaling period
  • Becoming Canadians
  • A trading post becomes a settlement
  • The coming of the Bay
  • A killing brings the police and a detachment
  • The coming of the Church
  • Camp life in the contact-traditional period
  • Aullativik in summer and winter
  • Contact-traditional economics
  • Sexual roles and division of labour
  • Care and training of the young
  • Hunting patterns and territoriality
  • Leadership
  • Contact with the Settlement
  • The coming of the bureaucrats
  • The Euro-Canadian community and its divisions
  • The Mittimatalikmiut
  • Relations between Tununermiut and Euro-Canadians
  • A changing political paradigm, and the impact of new statutes
  • The emergence of a New generation of leaders
  • The settlement ten years later
  • A home in the settlement
  • The political scene
  • Epilogue
  • Changes in identity and politics
  • The emergence of a new political paradigm
  • A larger matrix- Inuit among other aboriginals
  • The present .
  • Becoming like an Inuit? / A whaling we will go
  • Pre-contact Period
  • Whaling period
  • Becoming Canadians
  • A trading post becomes a settlement
  • Coming of the Bay
  • A killing brings the police and a detachment
  • Coming of the Church
  • Camp life in the contact-traditional period
  • Aullativik in summer and winter
  • Contact-traditional economics
  • Sexual roles and division of labour
  • Care and training of the young
  • Hunting patterns and territoriality
  • Leadership
  • Contact with the Settlement
  • Coming of the bureaucrats
  • Euro-Canadian community and its divisions
  • Mittimatalikmiut
  • Relations between Tununermiut and Euro-Canadians
  • A changing political paradigm, and the impact of new statutes
  • Emergence of a New generation of leaders
  • Settlement ten years later
  • A home in the settlement
  • Political scene
  • Epilogue
  • Changes in identity and politics
  • Emergence of a new political paradigm
  • A larger matrix- Inuit among other aboriginals
  • Present .

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