The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck : An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800-1834 / Renee Fossett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fossett, Renée, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fur trade.

Inuit--Canada.

Inuit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2023]

Summary:

One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Century-separated from his family, community, and language-finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay. Between 1812 and 1834, his family sent him to Churchill, Manitoba, to live and work among strangers, where he could escape the harsh Arctic climate and earn a living in the burgeoning fur trade. He was perhaps the first Inuk man employed by the Hudson's Bay Company as a labourer, and he also worked as an interpreter on John Franklin's two overland expeditions in search of the northwest passage. Tataneuck's life was shaped by the inescapable, harsh environments he lived within, and he was an important, but not widely recognized, player in the struggle for the possession of northwest North America waged by Britain, Russia, and the United States. He left no diaries or letters. Using the Hudson's Bay Company's journals and historical archives, historian Renee Fossett has pieced together a compelling biography of Augustine and the historical times he lived through: climate disasters, lethal disease episodes, and political upheavals on an international scale. While The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck is a captivating portrait of an Inuk man who lived an extraordinary life, it also is an arresting, unique glimpse into the North as it was in the 19th century and into the lives of trappers, translators, and labourers who are seldom written about and often absent in the historical record.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF MAPS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION TO AUGUSTINES WORLD

CHAPTER 1 THE INUIT, THE COMPANY, AND CHURCHILL POST 1812

CHAPTER 2 THE APPRENTICE 18131820

INTERLUDE 1 THE FIRST ARCTIC OVERLAND EXPEDITION 18191822

CHAPTER 3 FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ARCTIC 18201821

CHAPTER 4 DEATH AND SURVIVAL 18211822

INTERLUDE 2 REORGANIZING AND RETRENCHING THE COMPANY 18221824

CHAPTER 5 THE ENGAGED SERVANT 18221824

INTERLUDE 3 THE SECOND ARCTIC OVERLAND EXPEDITION 18241825

CHAPTER 6 SECOND JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ARCTIC 18241826

CHAPTER 7 JOURNEY TO THE POLAR SEA 18261827

CHAPTER 8 AUGUSTINE, ULLEBUK, AND MOSES 18271830

INTERLUDE 4 THE NORTHEAST EXPEDITION 1830

CHAPTER 9 THE UNGAVA ADVENTURE 18301833

CHAPTER 10 FAITHFUL, DISINTERESTED, KIND-HEARTED CREATURE 18331834

CHAPTER 11 THE FAMILIES 18341863

EPILOGUE

MEMORIALS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

GLOSSARY

NOTES

INDEX

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Print version: Fossett, Renee The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck

ISBN:

9780889779273

0889779279

OCLC:

1381708424