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Inuit Dreams, Inuit Realities: Shattering the Bonds of Dependency

American Review of Canadian Studies, 2001
The Inuit--The People-of Canada have long dreamed of creating their own territory out of the former Northwest Territories. With the birth of Nunavut--Our Land--on 1 April 1999, that dream has come true. Proposed since 1974, Nunavut was approved by Native constituents in 1979.
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Cultural continuity and Inuit health in Arctic Canada

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2019
Background Previous research association increased levels of cultural continuity and decreased rates of youth suicide in First Nations communities. We investigate the relationship between cultural continuity and self-rated health looking specifically at ...
S. L. Newell, Michelle L. Dion, Nancy Doubleday   +2 more
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Technology and Inuit identity: Facebook use by Inuit youth

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2018
This article discusses the relationship between technology and Inuit identity. Using interviews, it explores how a group of students from the Arctic College located in the community of Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic, use the social network Facebook.
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Copper Inuit

This entry focuses on the Copper Inuit around the time of 1915, which is prior to extensive contact with outsiders. "The people of the Canadian Arctic most often referred to as Copper Inuit had no name for themselves as a total group, but rather referred only to local groups" (Damas, 1996).
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Basal metabolic rate of inuit

American Journal of Human Biology, 1995
AbstractBasal metabolic rates (BMR) at the end of the winter of 1981–1982 were determined in both Inuit and subjects of European ancestry resident in Igloolik, N.W.T. (69°40'N, 81°W). Values for the Inuit sample (22 females, 14–53 years, and 30 males, 14–70 years) exceeded published body surface area norms by some 16–18%; they also exceeded the body ...
Andris Rode, Roy J. Shephard
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Planets in Inuit Astronomy

2018
Inuit are an indigenous people traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and parts of Russia’s Chukchi Peninsula. Across this vast region, Inuit society, while not entirely homogeneous either culturally or linguistically, nevertheless shares a fundamental cosmology, in part based on a common understanding ...
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Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum

Art Journal, 2017
Installation view, Ilippunga: I Have Learned, 2016, Brousseau Inuit Art Collection, Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (photograph by Daniel Drouin provided by MNBAQ) It is not only to make mo...
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Uhlenbeck’s Inuit-taalstudie

2008
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Bakker, Peter, van der Voort, Hein
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The ‘Third Gender’ of the Inuit

Diogenes, 2005
At a time when western societies seem to have lost their markers, once found in sexual life, in gender relationships, in the sexual division of tasks, in standard definitions of the individual and the person, of family and kin, at a time, too, when they are bending under the weight of an exponential build-up of texts, theories and scientific ...
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From TEK to IQ: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Inuit Cultural Ecology

Arctic Anthropology, 2004
From ethnographies of hunting to sophisticated harvesting and ecological research, human-animal interaction has been a long-standing primary focus of research on Canadian Inuit. The methodological and analytical formulations (principally from within wildlife management, ecological and economic anthropology, and evolutionary biology) that now frame much
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