Inuit Economic Responses to Euro‑American Contacts: Southeast Baffin Island, 1824‑1940

• Published in: Historical Papers
• Main Author: Goldring, Philip
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada 1986
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Baleine; Renard; la Baleine; Baie d'Hudson; Baie-d'Hudson; Pangnirtung; Cumberland Peninsula; Baffin; inuit; white fox
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/030951ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/030951ar

First contacts between Inuit and European whalers on Cumberland Peninsula led to considerable movement of population after 1824. Whaling vessels aided the mobility of hunting groups and developed seasonal employment patterns. They also changed the material culture of Inuit hunting and the seasonal p...