Armand Tagoona and the Arctic Christian Fellowship : the first Inuit church in Canada

• Main Authors: Laugrand, Frédéric., Laneuville, Pascale
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Inuit; Tagoona; Christianity; Inculturation; Shamanism; Religious movements; Armand; Arctic Christian Fellowship; Inuits > Religion; Pluralisme religieux > Christianisme; Canada; Naujaat; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Repulse Bay; Arctique*; Baker Lake; inuit; inuits
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/66478; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247419000226

Armand Tagoona (1926–1991) was born in Naujaat (Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories) in 1926, from an Inuk mother and a German father. Born as a Roman Catholic, he converted to Anglicanism. In 1969, he founded a new independent religious group affiliated to the Anglican Church in Qamani’tuaq (Baker L...