Feature Story: Commercializing Caribou - What is Culturally Appropriate?

Caribou is a staple food in small, isolated Arctic communities and has been for generations, but the Inuit have just begun to commercialize this resource in the last ten years. Aldene Meis Mason, a specialist in Indigenous entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Business Administration, has travelled the...

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Main Author: External Relations, University of Regina
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: External Relations, University of Regina 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/3971
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Summary:Caribou is a staple food in small, isolated Arctic communities and has been for generations, but the Inuit have just begun to commercialize this resource in the last ten years. Aldene Meis Mason, a specialist in Indigenous entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Business Administration, has travelled the north to talk to Inuit leaders and explore with them how caribou could be used in ways that are culturally appropriate. Staff no