Muskox land : Ellesmere Island in the age of contact /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dick, Lyle
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©2001.
Series:Parks and heritage series ; no. 5.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Geography and climatic history of Ellesmere Island
  • High Arctic exosystems and human history
  • Inughuit culture in the High Arctic, 1800-1900
  • The Inuit on Ellesmere island and exchanges with the Inughuit in the nineteenth century
  • European cultures in the High Arctic, 1818-1940
  • Early exploration of the High Arctic by Europeans, 1818-1890
  • "Mine at Last": Robert e. Peary's Polar expeditions, 1890-1909
  • Assertion of Canadian Sovereignty over the High Arctic, 1895-1940
  • Adventurers, big-Game hunters, and scientists on Ellesmere Island, 1934-40
  • Material and technological adaptations of the contact era
  • Intercultural relations in the contact era
  • Cultural contact and High Arctic ecology, 1818-1940
  • Circumstance: relocations of the Inuit to the High Arctic, 1951-2000
  • Change: adaptation to new natural and cultural environments, 1951-2000
  • Continuity reasserted: Inuit, the seasons, and the land, 1951-2000.