_settler_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; eskimo*; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53313

settler n Tanner distinguishes two specialized types among the settled population of Southern Labrador: trappers who depend almost exclusively on the catching of fur-bearing animals and the Liveyeres whose subsistence depends on fishing and seal-hunting but who also engage in trapping. The Liveyeres.comprise the resident pop- ulation of the Labrador coast in constrast to the transient populations of the Stationers (shore fishermen) and Floaters (schooner fishermen). Tanner was correct when he distinguished the Liveyeres from the non- Eskimos of the north.even if his reasons were not very clear. The people of Labrador themselves place the so-called "settlers" of the north apart from the Liveyeres of the south.The term "settler" is not necessarily the best one. The Eskimo term "xablunangayuk". meaning half white, is more appropriate.The settlers may be plotted, in regard to certain aspects of their culture, midway along a continuum which asumes the Eskimos and whites to be its polar concepts. PRINTED ITEM GMS Jan 76 [-]Liveyeres[-] Used I Used I Not used colonist, LIVYER, PLANTER, squatters The source is not listed in DNE but the card is stamped as PRINTED ITEM.