And so, in the infernal violence of a veritable inva- sion, the North American Arctic entered the strategic history books, while the Inuit were put on the front lines of our conflict with the East. [...] He felt that the research of the day was overly dominated by American con- cepts and sought the input of European researchers into the development of a new perspective on the difficult situation of the Northwest Territories Inuit. [...] In 964 Mr Rousseau and I co-edited the first comprehensive study of what was then called Nouveau Québec and is now called Nunavik, the immense northern portion of the Province of Quebec.* The publisher was the Centre d’Études Arctiques, which the great historian Fernand Braudel and I founded in 957 in Paris under the auspices of the École des Hautes Études des Sci- ences Sociales (EHESS).† The i [...] At Le Havre in May 973, once again under the auspices of the centre, the historian Jacques Le Goff and James Wah-Shee, president of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories, co-chaired the first conference on Arctic oil and gas. [...] If ethnology and history have succeeded in the monumental task of convincing Europeans and North Americans that so-called “primitive” peo- ples are just as important in the history of humanity as are we, it is thanks to the work of pioneering intellectuals such as the ethnologists Marius Barbeau and Diamond Jenness, the archaeologist Robert McGhee, and the historians Jonathan Dore and Robert Vaugh
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- Includes bibliographical references: p. [371]-378
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- 22
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- Translation of the ed. first published in French, in 2 vols.: Paris : Plon, 1999 Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface: Nunavut and Nunavik: Guardians of the Canadian Confederation 10
- Author’s Acknowledgments 28
- Photo Section 29
- 1 In Foxe Basin 42
- 2 Toward Inuit Self-Government in Canada 63
- 3 The Netsilingmiut 100
- 4 On Hudson Bay, 1962 182
- 5 The Spartans of Back River 223
- Appendix One: From Tactic to Expiation 352
- Appendix Two: Diary of a Hunter Turned Miner 359
- Appendix Three: Glenn Gould’s Fascination with the Arctic 367
- Appendix Four: The Spirituality of the Arctic Night 369
- Appendix Five: Excerpts from Notebooks of Monique Malaurie 374
- Appendix Six: How a Liberal Economy Suffocates and Kills a First People 376
- Notes 378
- Bibliography 410
- Index 418
- A 418
- B 418
- C 419
- D 420
- E 420
- F 420
- G 420
- H 420
- I 420
- J 421
- K 421
- L 421
- M 422
- N 422
- O 423
- P 423
- Q 423
- R 423
- S 423
- T 424
- U 424
- V 424
- W 425
- Y 425