IS-1017 Lecture 8: CHAPTER 7 - the inuit and nunavut
11 Oct 2018
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Nunavut: april 1, 1999, nunavut became canada"s 3rd territory, nunavut is nearly 2 million square kilometres of its roughly 37,000 citizens, It remains a key point of scholarly curiosity. The people are located in 26 communities, spread across three time zones. Each community ranges in size from 130to 6,699 people. Early history: inuit populated the western and eastern arctic, northern quebec, and. Labrador by 1000 bce: inuit creation stories place their occupancy to time immemorial. Their first extended contract with the norse occurred in or around the year 1050. It was 1576 before inuit would interact in sustained ways with. Missionaries followed, after which whalers and colonial officials arrived. Early history to contact: trade soon developed between inuit and european whalers. Metal knives, rifles, tobacco, and cloth were exchanged for caribou skins and meat, dogs, fish. Whalers supplementing their income led to resource overexploitation: the inuit integrated permanently settled europeans into local kinship networks.
