Muskox land : Ellesmere Island in the age of contact / Lyle Dick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dick, Lyle.

Series:

Parks and heritage series 1494-0426 ; 5.

Parks and heritage series, 1494-0426 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation.

History.

Inuit.

Ellesmere Island (Nunavut)--History.

Ellesmere Island (Nunavut).

Inuit--Nunavut--Ellesmere Island--History.

Ellesmere Island (Nunavut)--Discovery and exploration.

Acculturation--Nunavut--Ellesmere Island--History.

Nunavut--Ellesmere Island.

Physical Description:

xxv, 615 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, [2001]

Summary:

Historian Lyle Dick analyses relations between Native People and Europeans in the Ellesmere Island region of Canada's High Arctic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a revealing work on both polar exploration and the sensitive issue of cultural contact.

Muskox Land is a comprehensive study of European -- Inuit contact in the High Arctic, including the roles played by the natural environment, culture, circumstance, and historical change arising during the era of exploration. Highlighted are discussions of material exchanges and adaptations, coupled with the many stresses precipitated by natural forces, the dynamics of contact and the progression of events during this period.

Contents:

Part 1 Continuities: The Natural Environment, Culture, and Human History 1

1 Geography and Climatic History of Ellesmere Island 7

2 High Arctic Ecosystems and Human History 31

3 Inughuit Culture in the High Arctic, 1800-1900 61

4 The Inuit on Ellesmere Island and Exchanges with the Inughuit in the Nineteenth Century 99

5 European Cultures in the High Arctic, 1818-1940 115

Part 2 Circumstance: History of Events on Ellesmere Island, 1818-1940 149

6 Early Exploration of the High Arctic by Europeans, 1818-90 153

7 "Mine at Last": Robert E. Peary's Polar Expeditions, 1890-1909 221

8 Assertion of Canadian Sovereignty over the High Arctic, 1895-1940 267

9 Adventurers, Big-Game Hunters, and Scientists on Ellesmere Island, 1934-40 307

Part 3 Change: The Interplay of Cultures and the Environment, 1818-1940 329

10 Material and Technological Adaptations of the Contact Era 333

11 Intercultural Relations in the Contact Era 365

12 Cultural Contact and High Arctic Ecology, 1818-1940 399

Part 4 Circumstance, Change, and Continuity: Inuit on Ellesmere Island, 1951-2000 421

13 Circumstance: Relocations of the Inuit to the High Arctic, 1951-2000 425

14 Change: Adaptation to New Natural and Cultural Environments, 1951-2000 441

15 Continuity Reasserted: Inuit, the Seasons, and the Land, 1951-2000 465

Conclusion: Ellesmere Island and the Times of History 481.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1552380505

OCLC:

47740942