Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic

by Eddie Dean Kolausok, David Morrison, Ishmael Alunik, et al.

The Western Canadian Arctic is a cold and seemingly barren wilderness. Yet for a thousand years it has been the homeland of a rich and accomplished people who call themselves Inuvialuit, "the real people." Hunters and fishers, their lives were enhanced by great annual hunts of beluga and bowhead whales. All that changed with the arrival of Americanwhalers in the 1890s. Decimated by disease and cultural dislocation, the Inuvialuit have successfully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551926458
• ISBN13: 9781551926452
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Canadian Museum of History and Raincoast Book
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.