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

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ISBN: 9780773565807 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773565809 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773513744
ISBN: 9780773513747
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxiii, 533 p., [11] p. of plates) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

General Note:	Terms of use - Multi-User. CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user.
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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.