This comprehensive, easy-to-read, introductory guide to the Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts focuses on their lifestyles, traditions and culture at the time of first contact with Europeans.
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Introductory guide to the Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts. Focus is on their life-styles, traditions and cultures.
Introductory guide to the Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts. Focus is on their life-styles, traditions and cultures.
The embarrassment of the cranberry partners -- Eviksheen the grass-user -- The girl who watched in the nighttime -- Uteritsoq, the obstinate one -- The Chuginadak woman -- The boy who became an arctic tern -- The little old lady who lived alone -- Qasiagssaq, the great liar -- W…
A collection of folktales of the native peoples, both Indian and Eskimo, of the Arctic, including Canada, Alaska, Russia and Greenland. Includes source notes, maps, drawings and bibliography.
A collection of folktales of the native peoples, both Indian and Eskimo, of the Arctic, including Canada, Alaska, Russia and Greenland. Includes source notes, maps, drawings and bibliography.
Oral histories of the 100 years of British and American whaling off the east coast of Canada and in Hudson Bay, as experienced by the native people who fed, clothed, and hunted with the whalers. Illustrated with modern drawings (some in color), and photographs from the period.
Documents stories called from oral memories of remaining Eskimo members and their descendants, acquainted with whalers who first appeared in Baffin Island, Cumberland Sound and Hudson Bay. Illustrated with drawings, photographs and artwork.
Documents stories called from oral memories of remaining Eskimo members and their descendants, acquainted with whalers who first appeared in Baffin Island, Cumberland Sound and Hudson Bay. Illustrated with drawings, photographs and artwork.
From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite traces the development of class relations and collective identity among Canadian Inuit over several centuries of contact with Western capitalism. Marybelle Mitchell provides a complete history of Inuit-white relations, starting wit…
From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite traces the development of class relations and collective identity among Canadian Inuit over several centuries of contact with Western capitalism. Marybelle Mitchell provides a complete history of Inuit-white relations, starting wit…
This study of the controversy surrounding the hunting of seals in the Canadian Arctic concentrates on the Inuit of Clyde River, Baffin Island, and traces the evolution of the traditional subsistence economy and social structure to the present cash economy, and the effects of ani…