The Keewatin Inuit and interband trade and communications, 1717-1900

• Main Author: Jones, Renaee Fossett.
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Arctic; Chesterfield Inlet; Greenland; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Indian; Chipewyan; inuit; Keewatin; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/7188

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Inuit of west Hudson Bay were expanding southward from the area around Chesterfield Inlet into the fringes of Chipewyan territory. Almost simultaneously with the move into new territory, they established first contact with Europeans. Between 1718 and 1...