Living on the Land

The late John S. Matthaisson was a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Manitoba, specializing in the ethnography of far-north cultures.

• Acknowledgements Preface Becoming Like an Inuit A Whaling We Will Go Pre-Contact Period The Whaling Period Becoming Canadians A Trading Post Becomes a Settlement The Coming of the Bay A Killing Brings the Police and a Detachment The Coming of the Church Camp Life in the Contact-Traditional Period Aullativik in Summer and Winter Contact-Traditional Economics Sexual Roles and the Divisions of Labour Hunting Patterns and Territoriality Leadership Contact with the Settlement The Coming of the Bureaucrats The Euro-Canadian Community and its Divisions The Mittimatalikmiut Relations Between Tununermiut and Euro-Canadians A Changing Political Paradigm, and the Impact of New Statuses The Emergence of a New Generation of Leaders The Settlement Ten Years Later A Home in the Settlement The Political Scene Epilogue Changes in Identity and Politics The Emergence of a New Political paradigm A Larger Matrix - Inuit among Other Aboriginals The Present Works Cited