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mcgill-queen’s native and northern series
(InmemoryofBruceG.Trigger)
SarahCarterandArthurJ.Ray,Editors
1 When the Whalers Were Up North 10 Strangers Among Us
Inuit Memories from the Eastern DavidWoodman
Arctic
11 When the North Was Red
DorothyHarleyEber
Aboriginal Education in Soviet
2 The Challenge of Arctic Shipping Siberia
Science, Environmental DennisA.BartelsandAliceL.
Assessment, and Human Values Bartels
EditedbyDavidL.VanderZwaagand
12 From Talking Chiefs to a Native
CynthiaLamson
Corporate Elite
3 Lost Harvests The Birth of Class and Nationalism
Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and among Canadian Inuit
Government Policy MarybelleMitchell
SarahCarter
13 Cold Comfort
4 Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty My Love Affair with the Arctic
The Existing Aboriginal Right of GrahamW.Rowley
Self-Government in Canada
14 The True Spirit and Original Intent
BruceClark
of Treaty7
5 Unravelling the Franklin Mystery Treaty7EldersandTribalCouncil
Inuit Testimony withWalterHildebrandt,DorothyFirst
DavidC.Woodman Rider,andSarahCarter
6 Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and 15 This Distant and Unsurveyed
China Goods Country
The Maritime Fur Trade of the A Woman’s Winter at Baffin Island,
Northwest Coast,1785–1841 1857–1858
JamesR.Gibson W.GilliesRoss
7 From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare 16 Images of Justice
The Story of the Western Reserves DorothyHarleyEber
HelenBuckley
17 Capturing Women
8 In Business for Ourselves The Manipulation of Cultural
Northern Entrepreneurs Imagery in Canada’s Prairie West
WandaA.Wuttunee SarahA.Carter
9 For an Amerindian Autohistory 18 Social and Environmental Impacts
An Essay on the Foundations of a of the James Bay Hydroelectric
Social Ethic Project
GeorgesE.Sioui EditedbyJamesF.Hornig
19 Saqiyuq 28 The Arctic Voyages of Martin
Stories from the Lives of Three Frobisher
Inuit Women An Elizabethan Adventure
NancyWachowichincollaboration RobertMcGhee
withApphiaAgalaktiAwa,Rhoda
29 Northern Experience and the
KaukjakKatsak,andSandraPikujak
Myths of Canadian Culture
Katsak
RenéeHulan
20 Justice in Paradise
30 The White Man’s Gonna Getcha
BruceClark
The Colonial Challenge to the
21 Aboriginal Rights and Crees in Quebec
Self-Government TobyMorantz
TheCanadianandMexicanExpe-
31 The Heavens Are Changing
rienceinNorthAmericanPerspective
Nineteenth-Century Protestant
EditedbyCurtisCookandJuanD.
Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
Lindau
SusanNeylan
22 Harvest of Souls
32 Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
The Jesuit Missions and
The Transformation of Inuit
Colonialism in North America,
Settlement in the Central Arctic
1632–1650
DavidDamas
CaroleBlackburn
23 Bounty and Benevolence 33 Arctic Justice
A History of Saskatchewan Treaties On Trial for Murder – Pond Inlet,
ArthurJ.Ray,JimMiller,andFrank 1923
Tough ShelaghD.Grant
24 The People of Denendeh 34 Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of
Ethnohistory of the Indians of Hudson Bay
Canada’s Northwest Territories StuartHouston,TimBall,andMary
JuneHelm Houston
25 TheMarshallDecision and Native 35 The American Empire and the
Rights Fourth World
KenCoates AnthonyJ.Hall
26 The Flying Tiger 36 Uqalurait
Women Shamans and Storytellers An Oral History of Nunavut
of the Amur CompiledandeditedbyJohnBennett
KiraVanDeusen andSusanRowley
27 Alone in Silence 37 Living Rhythms
European Women in the Canadian Lessons in Aboriginal Economic
North before1940 Resilience and Vision
BarbaraE.Kelcey WandaWuttunee
38 The Making of an Explorer 45 Robert and Francis Flaherty
George Hubert Wilkins and the A Documentary Life,1883–1922
Canadian Arctic Expedition, RobertJ.Christopher
1913–1916
46 Talking in Context
StuartE.Jenness
Language and Identity in
39 Chee Chee Kwakwaka’wakw Society
A Study of Aboriginal Suicide AnneMarieGoodfellow
AlvinEvans
47 Tecumseh’s Bones
40 Strange Things Done GuySt-Denis
Murder in Yukon History
48 Constructing Colonial Discourse
KenS.CoatesandWilliamR.
Captain Cook at Nootka Sound
Morrison
NoelElizabethCurrie
41 Healing through Art
Ritualized Space and Cree 49 The Hollow Tree
Identity Fighting Addiction with Traditional
NadiaFerrara Healing
HerbNabigon
42 Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing
Coming Home to the Village 50 The Return of Caribou to Ungava
PeterCole A.T.Bergerud,StuartLuttich,
LodewijkCamps
43 Something New in the Air
The Story of First Peoples 51 Firekeepers of the Twenty-First
Television Broadcasting in Canada Century
LornaRoth First Nations Women Chiefs
CoraJ.Voyageur
44 Listening to Old Woman Speak
Natives and Alternatives in 52 Isuma
Canadian Literature Inuit Video Art
LauraSmythGroening MichaelRobertEvans
Isuma
Inuit Video Art
MICHAEL ROBERT EVANS
McGill-Queen’sUniversityPress
Montreal&Kingston(cid:2)London(cid:2)Ithaca
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To theloving memory ofmy mother,
CarolynRuth RobinsonEvans,
and to Joanna,Miles,and DylanEvans,
with all my loveand gratitude
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
1 ReflectionsintheIce 3
2 IgloolikIsuma 17
3 InuitVideoasFolklore 31
4 Isuma’sArtists 56
5 Atanarjuat:TheFastRunner 76
6 StreamsofCulture 101
7 VideoasSocio-PoliticalEndeavour 122
8 NetsilikandNanookvsNunavut 140
9 VideoinPolitics 156
10 VideoasCommunity 172
11 LightthroughtheIce 191
Glossary 211
Notes 215
References 225
Index 233
