Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering

Book review of: Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes by Ludger Müller-Wille and Bernd Gieseking; translated by William Barr.

Researchers work with Inuit Elders and hunters in Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven) on Qikiqtaq (King William Island) in order to document and share Uqsuqtuurmiut (people of Uqsuqtuuq) knowledge of caribou movements, hunting, and habitat, as well as the importance of caribou for community diets, livelihoods, and cultural practices.

Highlights the contributions of a Inuk man whose geographic abilities changed the lives and employment of Inuit in his homeland.

Children exiting tent located beside drying hides; photograph taken in Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children, Drying Caribou Hide.

Discussed the traditional use of caribou in health care, potential uses for biomedicines, nutraoceuticals, functional foods, and the benefits that could arise from being in partnerships.

Website links to six Inuit health publications and activity books for children and teens.

Contends that Québec Inuit women have the greatest body burden known to develop from exposure to organochlorine contaminants, due to their location at the top of the arctic food chain.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2012.

Appears to be part of a series of 11 images in slide show of Inuit artifacts. Title on file: Eskimo Artifacts.

Discusses government policies and the history of game legislation.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (MNRM)--University of Manitoba, 2009.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University 2007.

Article investigates Inuit traditional knowledge on the sources, availability and suitability of wood resources on the east coast of Hudson Bay.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Guelph, 2010.

Reports previous and current Inuit land use in Manitoba in support of the Inuit Aboriginal claim in northeastern corner of the province.

Interviews Inuit hunters in four Nunavut communities about hunting and how they identify sex, age, body size and health of polar bears.

Looks at the economically important form of Aboriginal ecotourism and how Inuit communities are working to accommodate the non-Inuit culture and the market economy.

Examines how the Inuit perceptions have been shaped by the political discussion, global warming and other associated issues.

Discusses Inuit views on contaminants and resulting effects on harvesting and consumption of food.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2000.

Book review of: Inuit, Polar Bears and Sustainable Use by Milton M.R. Freeman and Lee Foote.

Geography and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.E.D.)--Wildfred Laurier University, 2009.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1991.

Article examines the phenomenon in which toxins are concentrated in the fat of mammals and how this especially affects Inuit people because marine mammals make up such a large percentage of their diet.

Examines traditional Inuit and Yupiit stories, rituals, and colloquial sayings to reveal different meanings associated with the bearded seal in these Indigenous cultures. Finds that bearded seals can impart multiple meanings ranging from monstrous to protection to renewal and reproduction.

Photograph. From information card: Taktu cleans fat from sealskin with an ulu at Cape Dorset.

Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2008.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Looks at the different roles and responsibilities expected of Inuit youth entering adulthood today compared with Inuit youth in the past.

Discusses two communal caribou kill sites.

Explores fishery practices using written and archaeological sources.

Study employs the Arctic Social Indicators (ASI) framework to assess the health of six communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). Indicators assessed include: health and population, material well-being cultural vitality, closeness to nature, education, and fate control.

Research conducted to anticipate and demonstrate the secondary effects of climate variability on Arctic char and relay these effects to the local users.

Animated short video offering a whimsical at look at life in the Arctic and how climate change is affecting lifestyles. Accompanying material: Islet: [Study Guide]. Duration: 7:01.

Guide to accompany the film, Islet. Target group ages 11 and up. Objective is to write and illustrate a story about life in the Arctic.

Discussion of the animal rights campaign especially the anti-sealing and anti-whaling movements.

Inuk Elder relates hunting and fishing methods used in his youth.

Film documents springtime in the Canadian arctic as a Netsilik family camps on the ice and endures a blizzard. Duration: 31:56.

Book One: Northwest Territories First Nations Settlement Areas.

Book Three: Northwest Territories Nunavut Settlement Area Lands

Portrait of Ulayok Kaviok, her two different worlds, and her unique skills in making sealskin boots. Duration: 14:35.

Curatorial notes from an exhibition of the same name mounted at the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, 2001. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 48.

Documentary film of the trial of Kikkik charged with murder and criminal negligence and about her daughter's search for answers about her mother's past. Duration: 52:37.

Presents information from the journals of an Anglican missionary, Isaac O. Stringer, detailing Mackenzie Inuit life.

Looks at influences regulating Inuit economic activities, the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement, and new governance arrangements.

Author gathers and studies accounts from the journals of Moravian settlers in Labrador; written between 1771 and 1778 these accounts contain depictions of seal and caribou as prey animals, information on when the Inuit hunted these animals and the techniques they used, and clues that suggest transformation between human and nonhuman beings.

Discusses Inuit harvesters’ expectations of their land claims that influence their current resistance to ocean co-management within the Kivalliq (formerly Keewatin) region of Nunavut.