Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
A Note on Languages
Map 1: Political Map of Nunavut
Map 2: Inuit Regions of Canada
Map 3: Ethnographic Map of the Arctic
Map 4: -Miut Groups of Nunavut
Introduction: Silattuqsarvik—A Place (and Time) to Become Wise
Introduction: The “Apolitical” Inuit
The Meaning of Nation
Reading Tuniit Stories for Nationalist Themes
This is Not a Tuniq
Conclusion: The “Problem” of Inuit Diversity
Introduction: Eight Inuit Myths
Unipkaaqtuat as Literary Texts
“Angusugjuk and the Polar Bears”
Conclusion: A New Generation of Unipkaaqtuat
Three: “Let Me Sing Slowly and Search for a Song”: Inuit “Poetry” and the Legacy of Knud Rasmussen
Hunting Songs
Emile Imaruittuq and the Ikiaqtagait (Adapted Songs)
Ikiaqtagait in the Work of Igloolik Isuma Productions
Four: “I Can Tell You the Story as I Heard it”: Life Stories and the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Land Bridge
Oral History and Life Stories
What Inuit Have Known for a Very Long Time —About Storytelling
Life Among the Qallunaat as a “Literary” Text
Afterword: Inuuqatigiittiarniq—Living Together in a Good Way
Relationship to Land
Relationship to Family
Relationship to one’s “Inner Spirit”
Relationship to One’s Community
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Afterword
Bibliography
Index