Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter ii
2. Contents vi
3. Preface x
4. Author's acknowledgments xxviii
5. In Foxe Basin 3
6. Toward Inuit Self-Government in Canada 24
7. The Netsilingmiut 61
8. On Hudson Bay, 1962 143
9. The Spartans of Back River 184
10. From Tactic to Expiation: Thoughts on the Utku's Abstention from Sealing 313
11. Diary of a Hunter Turned Miner 320
12. Glenn Gould's Fascination with the Arctic 328
13. The Spirituality of the Polar Night 330
14. Excerpt from notebooks of Monique Malaurie, May 1996: Glenn Gould 335
15. How a Liberal Economy Suffocates and Kills a First People 337
16. Notes 339
17. Bibliography 371
18. Index 379