This profusely illustrated history of Inuit involvement in American mass entertainment from 1892 to 1922 documents performances at 11 world’s fairs and expositions, at dime
museums, with Barnum & Bailey’s Circus, at Coney Island, and in the film industry throughout the first decade of the Hollywood studios. At the center of the story are two
extraordinary women. Esther Eneutseak led a group of Labrador Inuit from the Paris World’s Fair to Hollywood. Her daughter Columbia, a World’s Fair baby born at Chicago in
1893, wrote and starred in the first Hollywood film with a credited Inuit cast.
In 1953 a few Inuit families were moved from their homes on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay to Ellesmere Island, 1,500 miles further north. Though bureaucrats said it was for their own good, to give them a better life after
fox pelt prices plummeted, the move was driven by political need and cultural arrogance. By putting permanent residents people on the formerly uninhabited island, Canada could claim it as its territory at a time when
Greenland and the United States also were talking about claiming it. As the book goes on to explain, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples eventually damned the move, and it was significant in the formation of the new territory of Nunavut.
For ages 4-8. Eva, a young Inuit girl, goes to walk under the ice to gather mussels alone for the first time. She has gone many times with her mother but never all alone.
While she is under the ice, she becomes intrigued with shapes, shadows and life under the sea and forgets that the tide is coming in. Eva experiences a multitude of feelings when she realizes she might be trapped. She finally finds the hole that leads to the surface again.
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Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent 17 months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.
The authors present a sophisticated model of Northern Athapaskan migrations based on extensive archaeological, ethnographic, and dendrochronological research. A synthesis
of 25 years of work, Athapaskan Migrations includes detailed accounts of field research in which the authors emphasize ethnic group identification, settlement patterns, lithic
analysis, dendrochronology, and radiocarbon dating. Their theoretical approach will provide a blueprint for others wishing to establish the ethnic identity of archaeological
materials.
The UNESCO appointment of the Laponian World Heritage Area in 1996 meant that Sweden accepted the assignment of protecting both the cultural and natural values of this
area for all mankind and all generations to come. The appointment determined that the local Saami reindeer herding culture in Laponia area do not easily combine, negotiations
between the concerned parties must be held over important matters. This thesis deals with the ways in which "nature" and the "environment" are negotiated within the
environmental discourses that concern Laponia.
