Another Way of Being
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lorna Smith
Arctic, vol. 30, no. 2, June 1977, pp. 126-127
Description
Book review of: Another Way of Being by Pamela Harris.
Compares Registered Indians to Canada's general population in three components: life expectancy, education and income.
Examines the role of archeology as both a the study of the past but also as a means to find a solutions for the future.
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch