Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries

• Published in: Études Inuit Studies
• Main Author: Thea Olsthoorn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2019
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; Moravians; Inuit; Labrador; hunting; animals; Moraves; chasse; animaux; General Arts and Humanities; General Social Sciences; geo; litt; Nain; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061436ar.pdf; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1061436ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1061436ar; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061436ar/; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2960237765

In 1769 an Order in Council from the British government enabled the Moravians to settle in Labrador. The missionaries laid the boundary stones for their land (ca. 405 km2) in the next year, and established their first mission station (Nain) on the Labrador coast in 1771. The brethren’s accounts of t...