"On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the long-awaited creation of their own regional self-government of Nunatsiavut.…
In 1845, a 129-man crew headed by Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Canadian Arctic while trying to discover and claim the Northwest Passage for Britain. In the aftermath of the Expedition’s disappearance and the recovery of its remnants by rescue parties, British communities…
Physical activity, games, sport and youth have a rich history within Indigenous communities, but that is not reflected in academic literature. For years, scholars wrote about Indigenous communities and people and not with them. Aspects of everyday life, such as physical activity…
This dissertation is about land, colonization, and Indigenous people. While focusing broadly on Algonquian peoples, special attention is given to the Spruce Island Cree of Cumberland House in northeastern Saskatchewan. The use of the Nehinuw (Cree) language and cultural historic…
The Arctic Council is a collaborative forum of member states, Permanent Participants, and Observers. It has created many outputs that have attained high levels of global visibility and shaped state agendas. While the Council has evolved since its inception in 1996, the political…
In the past decade, food (in)security has been recognized as an important public health and human rights issue in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Arctic Canada. Nunavut in particular has been characterized as the epicenter of a Northern food crisis. While a growing number …
This thesis proposes that syncretic fusion between Christian iconography and symbols of traditional Inuit spirituality (shamanism) is evident in Inuit art. The potential for syncretism is dependent upon several factors. These include: the attitudes of Arctic missionaries toward …
"The Inuit do not represent a very large population, only 160,000 or so, spread over a very large portion of the Arctic region and located in four different countries. This means that, although a 'people, ' there are many variations from one group to the next and any study of th…
"The Inuit do not represent a very large population, only 160,000 or so, spread over a very large portion of the Arctic region and located in four different countries. Although they are a "people," there are many variations from one group to the next, and any study of them must …
"The Inuit do not represent a very large population, only 160,000 or so, spread over a very large portion of the Arctic region and located in four different countries. This means that, although a 'people, ' there are many variations from one group to the next and any study of th…
