Los renos de Amadjuak

• Published in: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec
• Main Authors: Jarich Oosten, Frédéric Laugrand
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 2016
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; Inuits; Saamis; élevage du renne; caribou; Amadjuak; Inuit; Saami; reindeer herding; cría de renos; caribú; General Medicine; hist; art; Baffin Island; Renne; Qallunaat; Baffin; inuit; inuits; saami; Terre de Baffin; renne
• Online Access: http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/raq/2015-v45-n1-raq02363/1035165ar.pdf; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/raq/2015-v45-n1-raq02363/1035165ar.pdf; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1035165ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1035165ar; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/raq/2015-v45-n1-raq02363/1035165ar/; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2328563692

This paper describes and analyses the introduction of reindeer herding in Amadjuak, on Baffin Island, in 1921. The operation involved several Saami families and Inuit, hired at the last moment to help the Saami and take over reindeer herding. But the operation resulted in a failure and all the reind...