Skin for Skin : Death and Life for Inuit and Innu / Gerald M. Sider.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Narrating native histories | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822377368
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Contents:
Historical violence -- Owning death and life : making "Indians" and "Eskimos" from native peoples -- Living within and against tradition, 1800-1920 -- The peoples without a country -- Mapping dignity -- Life in a concentration village -- Today may become tomorrow -- Warriors of wisdom.
Summary: Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as to the end of the fur and sealskin trades.
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Historical violence -- Owning death and life : making "Indians" and "Eskimos" from native peoples -- Living within and against tradition, 1800-1920 -- The peoples without a country -- Mapping dignity -- Life in a concentration village -- Today may become tomorrow -- Warriors of wisdom.

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Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as to the end of the fur and sealskin trades.

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