CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tuberculosis, American Indian Film Festival, Knud Rasmussen

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Briande Ruiter

Document Summary

To discuss the popular image of the inuit. To examine government policies directed at the inuit and the inuit responses. Igloo is an image that many of us refer to when we think of inuit. When you look at the arctic lacks snow but we apply snow and the arctic to the inuit. Europeans have been creating images of the inuits for centuries. Look to inuit for things/values that they had lost. Admired for ability to survive (in the cold) The rigor of the climate, no other race could survive, yet here, utterly dependent upon animal live, which their sole source of food, love the most cheerful people in all the world- the fearless, lovable, happy-go-lucky eskimo. Many inuit in port harrison in the 1920"s, were very familiar with western technology. New york times (review provided some insight on why the film was success) Stefansson negative criticism (believed audience were experiencing authentic evidence of the.