From talking chiefs to a native corporate Gelite : the birth of class and nationalism among Canadian Inuit

Mitchell, Marybelle 1940- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0773513744 (acid-free paper) :
ISBN: 9780773513747 (acid-free paper) :
Physical Description: xxiii, 533 p., [11] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-515) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. A New Perspective on Development -- 2. At the Brink of Transition: Inuit Relationships at First Contact -- 3. Explorers and Itinerant Traders -- 4. The Whalers: Indigenous Practices Are Both Bolstered and Undermined -- 5. Traders, Missionaries, and Police: A Community of Interest -- 6. Economic, Ideological, and Political Transformation -- 7. The Little Colombo Plan: The State Makes Its Presence Felt -- 8. The State Organizes Cooperatives for Eskimos -- 9. Canadian Arctic Producers: "A Business of Which There are Few Parallels" -- 10. Quebec Pursues a Separate Destiny -- 11. The Federal Government as Promoter and Gatekeeper of Inuit Art -- 12. The Northwest Territories Cooperatives Federate; Inuit Producers Gain Control of CAP, and Dorset Defects -- 13. Convergence: CAP and CACFL Amalgamate and Quebec and the NWT Shake Hands -- 14. Hunters Become Producers of Arts and Crafts: The Effect of the Cooperative on Inuit Work and Means of Production -- 15. From Talking Chiefs to a Native Cooperative Elite: The Movement towards Class Relations -- 16. Nationalism and the Articulation of Capitalist and Indigenous Practices -- 17. Native Land Claims in Canada: A Push by the State to Promote Nonrenewable-Resource Exploitation -- 18. Development Corporations Challenge the Cooperatives and Complete Relations of Dominance -- 19. From Hunters and Fishers to Directors and Shareholders: Transformed Relations and Transformed Mode of Production -- 20. The Drive for Ethnoregional Rights: Resistance and Containment -- 21. The Struggle for Dominance.