Skin for Skin : Death and Life for Inuit and Innu

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sider, Gerald M.

Series:

Narrating Native Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuit--Health and hygiene--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador.

Inuit--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador--Social conditions.

Naskapi Indians--Health and hygiene--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador.

Naskapi Indians--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador--Social conditions.

Innu Indians--Social conditions--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador.

Innu Indians.

Inuit--Social conditions--Labrador--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Inuit.

Innu Indians--Health and hygiene--Labrador--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Inuit--Health and hygiene--Labrador--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Local Subjects:

Inuit--Health and hygiene--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador.

Inuit--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador--Social conditions.

Naskapi Indians--Health and hygiene--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador.

Naskapi Indians--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Other Title:

Narrating Native Histories Ser.

Narrating Native Histories

Skin for Skin

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of indigenous Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as to the end of the fur and sealskin trades.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; One. Historical Violence; Two. Owning Death and Life: Making "Indians" and "Eskimos" from Native Peoples; Three. Living within and against Tradition, 1800-1920; Four. The Peoples without a Country; Five. Mapping Dignity; Gallery; Six. Life in a Concentration Village; Seven. Today May Become Tomorrow; Eight. Warriors of Wisdom; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9780822377368

0822377365

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377368

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access