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Relocating Eden : the Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic.
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- ISBN: 1611687012
- ISBN: 9781611687019
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)
- Publisher: Lebanon : Dartmouth College Press, 2014.
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| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.20 Multi-User. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Terminology; Introduction; Part 1. Problems and Solutions; 1. Images of the Inuit; Film Imagery of the Happy-Go-Lucky Eskimo; Nanook Reborn as Joseph Idlout; Stark Images of Another North; Henry Larsen's Views on Inuit Welfare; Publicly Identifying the "Eskimo Problem"; The Fur Trade and Inuit Dependency; Competition to Exert Social Control over the Inuit; Bringing Order to a "Disordered" People; 2. The People of the Crown; Port Harrison and the Problems of Arctic Quebec "White Man's Handouts" and the Reform MovementInuit Settlement Patterns and the Argument for Rehabilitation; Self-Reliance, Resources, and Relocation; Geopolitical Perceptions of the Northern Frontier; Re-establishing "Effective Occupation" of the High Arctic; Ultima Thule: Reoccupation of the High Arctic Islands; The Eskimo Loan Fund and Resettlement Initiatives; Part 2. South of Eden-Relocation of the Inukjuamiut; 3. Relocation to the High Arctic; Officials Take Remedial Action; The "Migration" Selection Process: Recruits for Reform; Classification of Inuit for Relocation Difficulties Develop at Henik LakeRelocation Aftermath, Henik Lake, 1958; 6. Relocation on Trial; A Postmortem on the Ahiarmiut Relocation; The Slayings and Kikkik's Statement; The Preliminary Hearing; Crisis Management of the Ahiarmiut Deaths; The Department's Investigation of the Truth; The Deaths Reconstructed; The Trial of Kikkik; 7. Influencing Public Perceptions of the Relocations; Farley Mowat, Crusader for Truth; Controlling Discourse for the Common Good; Multiple Realities; Part 4. Reassessment; 8. The Aftermath: Reflections on Relocation; The End of the Experiment; Positive Views Dissenting VoicesA Sense of Place; The Final Drawing Back; Utopia on Trial; Epilogue; Appendix A. List of Inuit Relocated to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay, 1953-55; Appendix B. Inuit Relocated to Henik Lake, 1957; Appendix C. Presentation Given by the Author to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at a Public Hearing in Ottawa on 30 June 1993; Appendix D. List of Individuals Interviewed for This Study; Appendix E. Biographical Details of Officials and Other Whites; References; Index The Relocation and Dividing of the FamiliesControversy and External Perspectives; Thule Ruins and Site Selection; Social Reform and Survival; A Lack of Services; 4. The Process of Adaptation; The "Garden of Eden"; Guards and Guides; Looking for Eve; Relocating the Carvers; Right of Return; Part 3. The Flight from Eden-Relocation of the Ahiarmiut; 5. "Eskimos Fly to New Hunting Grounds"; The Ahiarmiut of Ennadai Lake; Relocation to Nueltin Lake; Back at Ennadai Lake; Plans for a Second Ahiarmiut Relocation; Before and After Life; Relocation from Ennadai Lake to Henik Lake |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
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| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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