CULTURAL CONFLICT IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

• Published in: The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien
• Main Authors: Michie, George H., Neil, Eric M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1955
• Subjects: Arctic; Workman; eskimo*; Keewatin; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1955.tb01749.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1541-0064.1955.tb01749.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1955.tb01749.x

SUMMARY The exploitation of the Canadian Arctic by people of European extraction has meant profound disruption to the culture of the indigenous Eskimo people. Through the fur‐trade they were provided with efficient weapons with which they have rapidly depleted their resource base. From the white man...