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When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic

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The creator tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story so that it will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen the whalers. Illuminated by a remarkable collection of drawings, photographs, and illustrations, many in full colour, tales are told of when the whalers first seemed on the north-east coast of Baffin Island, how they set up land stations in the whale-wealthy waters of Cumberland Sound, and how they in the end pushed on into Hudson Bay. Throughout this time the Inuit not only fed and clothed the whalers, they hunted with them, adding to the whalers’ wealth. Our understanding of change in Inuit life is continuously linked to the fur traders, who arrived in the North fifty years after the arrival of the whalers. Actually it’s the Inuit’s close contact with the foreign world of the whalers which marked the beginning of a change in up to now undisturbed Inuit culture and traditions.
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