"Never say die": an ethnohistorical review of health and healing in Aklavik, NWT, Canada

• Main Author: Cooper, Elizabeth
• Other Authors: Trott, Christopher (Native Studies), LaRocque, Emma (Native Studies) Ruml, Mark (Religious Studies, University of Winnipeg)
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Health; Indigenous; History; Colonization; Aklavik; Canada; Inuvik; Inuvialuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4103

The community of Aklavik, North West Territories, was known as the “Gateway to the North” throughout the first half of the Twentieth Century. In 1959, the Canadian Federal Government decided to relocate the town to a new location for a variety of economic and environmental reasons. Gwitch’in and Inu...