The Road to Nunavut: The Progress of the Eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War

333 Pages·1988·16.17 MB·English

by  R. Quinn Duffy

The Road to Nunavut
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The Road to
Nunavut
The Progress of the
Eastern Arctic Inuit
since the
Second World War
R. QUINN DUFFY
McGill-Queen's University Press
Kingston and Montreal
©McGill-Queen's University Press 1988
ISBN 0-7735-0619-5
Legal deposit 1st quarter 1988
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
This book has been published with the help of
a grant from the Social Science Federation of
Canada, using funds provided by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Duffy, R. Quinn (Ronald Quinn), 1937-
The Road to Nunavut
Includes index.
Bibliography: p.
ISBN 0-7735-0619-5
1. Inuit — Canada — Social conditions. 2. Inuit -
Canada — Government relations. 3. Nunavut
(N.W.T.). I. Title.
E99.E7D84 1988 97l'.00497 C87-090197-4
For my parents,
Jack and Eileen Duffy,
with love and respect
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A preoccupation with one's survival is
necessarily also a preoccupation with the
obstacles to that survival. In earlier writers
these obstacles are external - the land, the
climate, and so forth. In later writers the
obstacles tend to become both harder to
identify and more internal; they are no
longer obstacles to physical survival but
obstacles to what we may call spiritual
survival, to life as anything more than a
minimally human being.
Margaret Atwood
We shall survive
And we shall walk
Somehow into summer ...
D.G. Jones
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introduction: Reluctant Guardian 3
1 Supplying Shelter 19
2 Looking after Health 51
3 Providing an Education 95
4 Providing a Living 131
5 Relinquishing Authority 195
Notes 267
Index 302