The Best Part of Life : Subsistence Hunting, Ethnicity, and Economic Adaptation among Young Adult Inuit Males

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Condon, Richard G., Collings, Peter, Wenzel, George
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1995
• Subjects: Acculturation; Adaptability (Psychology); Economic conditions; Equipment and supplies; Ethnography; Food; Health; Hunting; Inuit; Mental health and well-being; Sealing; Social change; Social conditions; Social interaction; Social surveys; Subsistence; Trapping; Welfare; Holman; N.W.T; Arctic; Soi; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64277

This paper examines the economic adaptations and subsistence hunting involvement of households between the ages of 20 and 35 in the Copper Inuit community of Holman. Social, economic, and political changes throughout the Canadian Arctic have made it impossible for young adults to pursue the same mix...