Placing Identity: Town, Land, and Authenticity in Nunavut, Canada

• Main Author: Searles, Edmund
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Bucknell Digital Commons 2010
• Subjects: Inuit; Canada; ethnicity; place; Anthropology; Arctic; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Qallunaat; Baffin; inuit; Iqaluit
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/83

Recent demographic changes have made settlement patterns in the Canadian Arctic increasingly urban. Iqaluit, capital of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut, is home to the largest concentration of Inuit and non-Inuit populations in the Canadian North. Despite these trends, Inuit cultural identity c...