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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Toby Andersen, Labrador Inuit Association

Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a presentation by Toby Andersen, Labrador Inuit Association. Andersen addresses the issue of the Inuit land claims agreement for northern Labrador which he has been involved with negotiating for several years. Andersen gives his own views on the process and the agreement (including discussion of tourism and fisheries issues), and asks that the Commission intervene on his organization's behalf. Following the presentation is a discussion between Andersen and Commissioners Dussault and Sillett.
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Seal Skins

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Description
"Rankin, Seal Skins Drying on Side of Eskimo House" Rankin Inlet, [NU].
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Seals, Selfies, and the Settler State: Indigenous Motherhood and Gendered Violence in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Rule
American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, December 2018, pp. 741-754
Description
Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.
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Sealskins and Copperskins

Articles » General
The Month: A Magazine and Review, vol. 4, June 1866, pp. 357-504
Description
Descriptions of Inuit social life and customs, circa. 1866. Volume covers January to June, 1866.
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Seasonal Prevalence and Determinants of Food Insecurity in Iqaluit, Nunavut

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yang Guo
Lea Berrang-Ford
James Ford
Marie-Pierre Lardeau
Victoria Edge ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, 2015, p. article no. 27284
Description
Study finds that food insecurity is three times higher than the national average in Inuit communities.
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Shifting Perspectives on Shifting Ice: Documenting and Representing Inuit Use of the Sea Ice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudio Aporta
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 6–19
Description
Overview of an initiative to document and map Inuit sea ice use in Nunavut and Nunavik communities, with a discussion of how Inuit knowledge of sea ice is important to the climatic changes and the cultural and social changes in the Arctic regions.
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Silatuniq: Respectful State of Being in the World

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Betsy Annahatak
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 38, no. 1-2, Cultures Inuit, Gouvernance et Cosmopolitiques / Inuit Cultures, Governance and Cosmopolitics, 2014, pp. 23-31
Description
Comments on Inuit socialization from childhood to adulthood and defines silatuniq.
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Sport and Travel in Hudson's Bay, North America

Alternate Title
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue
Archival » Archival Items
The Graphic
Description
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan. Images include: An Esquimaux Kayak (Canoe); Fall Upon the Little Whale River; The Canoe "Elk" Off Moose Factory; Seal-Hunting on the Ice; Esquimaux from the North Belcher Islands ; Esquimaux in Snow Shelter, Watching a Seal-Hole; Building an Igloo (Snow Hut), Little Whale River; Esquimaux and White Whale; and Train of Dogs in Harness. Published in The Graphic, May 24, 1879 [Page] 512-513. No article associated with this image in the newspaper.
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Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice: Part 1

Alternate Title
Netsilik Series
Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice: Part One
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Description
Documents the activities of a Netsilik family unit hunting seal on the spring ice floes. Shows techniques of stalking, killing, skinning, butchering and preparing the hide and internal organs for use. Also depicts the division of labour between the men and women. Duration: 24:31.
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Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice: Part 2

Alternate Title
Netsilik Series
Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice: Part Two
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Description
Documents the activities of a Netsilik family unit hunting seal on the spring ice floes. Shows techniques of stalking, killing, skinning, butchering and preparing the hide and internal organs for use. Also depicts the division of labour between the men and women. Duration: 33:45.
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Strangers Among Us

Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
David C. Woodman
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A Study of Enterprise in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut: Where Subsistence Self-Employment Meets Formal Entrepreneurship

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aldene Meis Mason
Leo Paul Dana
Robert Brent Anderson
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the enterprise sector in the community, including the benefits and drawbacks of a proposed road linking Rankin Inlet with Manitoba.
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Subsistence in Northern Communities: Lessons from Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Thornton
The Northern Review, no. 23, Special Issue: [Northern Communities and the State], Summer, 2001, pp. 82-102
Description
Discusses idea that failure to consider subsistence economies has caused a crisis in Alaska and talks about lessons learned.
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Sustainability and Vulnerability: Aboriginal Arctic Food Security in a Toxic World

Alternate Title
Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Thompson
Description
Discusses importance of the impact of environmental change on food security due to widespread poverty, contamination causing toxic impacts, and government policies restricting access to land and resources. Chapter 3 from Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, Alan Diduck.
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Thule Eskimo Bowhead Whale Interception Strategies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James M. Savelle
Allen P. McCartney
World Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 3, February 1, 1999, pp. 437-451
Description
Examines prehistoric village locations as they relate to the bowhead whale migration routes.
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