The Influence of the American Whaling Industry on the Aivilingmiut, 1860-1919

• Main Author: Robinson, Samuel Isaac
• Other Authors: Damas, David, Anthropology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Anthropology; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Southampton Island; Repulse Bay; Chesterfield Inlet; Cape Fullerton; Aivilik; eskimo*; walrus*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10254

The resources of archaeological research, historical documents, and ethnographic literature are combined to present an analysis of the nature and effects of contact between American whaling vessels and a group of Hudson Bay Eskimos. The meeting in 1860 of American whalers and the Aivilingmiut, a sub...