Contacts between American Whalemen and the Copper Eskimos

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Bockstoce, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1975
• Subjects: Copper Eskimos; Arctic; Cape Parry; Coronation Gulf; Herschel Island; Langton Bay; Parry; Stefansson; The Handle; The Schooner; Beluga; Beluga*; eskimo*; musk ox; narwhal*; Victoria Island
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65898

It has often been maintained that the Copper Eskimos did not have contacts with white men between the early eighteen fifties and the first decade of the twentieth century. The earliest recent encounters are generally believed to have occurred in 1902, when David Hanbury conducted explorations on the...