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Kiviuq : An Inuit Hero And His Siberian Cousins

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The Arctic Promise : Legal And Political Autonomy Of Greenland And Nunavut

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Quaqtaq : Modernity And Identity In An Inuit Community

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Saqqaq : An Inuit Hunting Community In The Modern World

  • Saqqaq : An Inuit Hunting Community In The Modern World

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    Jens Dahl

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    Book, University of Toronto Press, 2000

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    Jens Dahl analyses life in Saqqaq, a small Greenlandic hunting community, and explores the changes that have taken place there over the last couple of decades. As modern technology is introduced and the worldviews of the Greenlandic Inuit change, the hunting community continues to base its life on a traditional notions, including an economy involving sharing, exchanging, and free access to the hunting and fishing grounds. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E99.E7 D32 2000  AVAILABLE

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Critical Inuit Studies : An Anthology Of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography

  • Critical Inuit Studies : An Anthology Of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography

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    edited by Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson

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    Book, University of Nebraska Press, 2006

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    Over the past decade, some of the most innovative work in anthropology and related fields has been done in the Native communities of circumpolar North America. Critical Inuit Studies offers an overview of the current state of Inuit studies by bringing together the insights and fieldwork of more than a dozen scholars from six countries currently working with Native communities in the far north. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E99.E7 C764 2006  AVAILABLE

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The Resourcefulness Of The Inuit : A Unit Celebrating The Cultural Uniqueness And Resourcefulness Of The Inuit Both Past And Present

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Visions Of The Heart : Canadian Aboriginal Issues

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Uqalurait : An Oral History Of Nunavut

  • Uqalurait : An Oral History Of Nunavut

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    compiled and edited by John Bennett and Susan Rowley ; foreword by Suzanne Evaloardjuk … [et al.]

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    Book, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004

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    Thousands of quotes from over three hundred Inuit elders about their culture and customs cover all aspects of traditional life, from raising children to hunting, the land, and architecture, to belief systems, cosmology, and the Inuit?s remarkable ability to make do with what they had. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E99.E7 B35 2004  AVAILABLE

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No Man’s River

  • No Man's River

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    Farley Mowat

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    Book, Key Porter Books, 2004

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    In No Man’s River, master storyteller Farley Mowat delivers a gripping account of adventure in the far north, shared with a Metis trapper as the two men travel over a thousand miles by canoe. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of the Second World War behind him, Farley Mowat joined a scientific expedition to the north, seeking a saner world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E99.E7 M858 2004  AVAILABLE

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The Stolen Sun : A Story Of Native Alaska

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Maata’s Journal : A Novel

  • Maata's Journal : A Novel

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    Paul Sullivan

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    Book, 1st ed, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003

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    Though her brother rebels and runs away, Maata realizes that in order to thrive in this new world, she must adapt to this new way of life. In this remarkable story of courage, survival, and the power of language, Paul Sullivan brings the breathtakingly harsh Arctic landscape, and a breathtakingly determined girl, to life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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The Transformation

  • The Transformation

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    Mette Newth ; translated by Faith Ingwersen

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    Book, 1st English language ed, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

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    A powerful novel about the meeting of two very different cultures in fifteenth-century GreenlandFor several years, the Inuits in Greenland, the “Human Beings,” as they call themselves, have suffered from unusually hard winters that do not let up even in what should be summertime. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Muskox Land : Ellesmere Island In The Age Of Contact

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Writing On Ice : The Ethnographic Notebooks Of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  • Writing On Ice : The Ethnographic Notebooks Of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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    edited and introduced by Gísli Pálsson

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    Book, University Press of New England, 2001

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    Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. While many anthropological works refer to his writings and he continues to be cited in ethnographic and historical works on indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic, particularly the Inuit, his successes in exploration (the discovery and mapping of some of the last remaining land on earth) have overshadowed his anthropological work. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E99.E7 S822 2001 c.2 AVAILABLE

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Call Of The North : An Explorer’s Journey To The North Pole

  • Call Of The North : An Explorer's Journey To The North Pole

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    Jean Malaurie ; translated from the French by Molly Stevens

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    Book, Harry N. Abrams, 2001

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    Enraptured by the Inuit way of life ever since he became the first Frenchman to reach the North Pole by dog sled in 1951, Jean Malaurie records for all time the disappearing traditions of the Inuits-in an enthralling photo-documentary that is also a terrific adventure story by one of the great explorers of our age. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     OVERSIZE (UPPER)  E99.E7 M22813 2001  AVAILABLE

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