Inuit hunters, Saami herders, and lessons from the Amadjuak experiment (Baffin Island, Canada)

• Main Author: Laugrand, Frédéric
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Publications scientifiques du Muséum 2022
• Subjects: Arctique canadien; Inuit; Sami; caribou; renne; chasse; domestication; cosmologie; ethnologie; géologie; préhistoire; migrations; sciences de l'homme; Canadian Arctic; reindeer; hunting; cosmology; ethnology; geology; prehistory; migration; human sciences; Anthropology; SOC002000; JHM; Amadjuak; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Île de Baffin; Norway; Renne; Arctique*; Baffin; inuit; Péninsule de Seward; Rangifer tarandus; saami; sami; Terre de Baffin; Alaska
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/mnhn/11225

In 1920-21, reindeer and Saami herders from Norway are sent to Baffin island on board the Nascopie. The Canadian Government not only hoped to make a lucrative business but also to introduce herding among the Inuit, assuming that reindeer and caribou both belong to the same species (Rangifer tarandus...