Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic (McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series)

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In contemporary years, the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. In “Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers”, David Damas demonstrates that for a few years government policies helped take care of dispersed settlement, but that at last concerns over health, housing, and education and welfare brought about policy changes that inevitably led to centralization. Damas shows that at the same time as there were cases of government-directed relocation to centres, centralization used to be in large part voluntary as the Inuit accepted the benefits of village living. In examining archives, anthropological writings, and the result of field research from an anthropological perspective, Damas provides fresh insights into the policies and developments that led to the centralization of Inuit settlement all over the 1950s and 1960s.

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