Thule and Caribou Inuit subsistence strategies : re-evaluating the origins of the Caribou Inuit

• Main Author: Henderson, Lyle
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 2004
• Subjects: Caribou Eskimos > Origin; Caribou Eskimos > Nunavut > Food; Thule culture > Nunavut > Food; Burch; Nunavut; eskimo*; inuit; ringed seal; Thule culture
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83109

The goal of this thesis is to re-evaluate the origins of the Caribou Inuit. The thesis presents theories that have been proposed by Birket-Smith (1929), Burch (1978), and Clark (1978). Each theory represents a diverse perspective regarding Caribou Inuit origins that include, respectively, a proto-Es...