Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic

by Eddie Dean Kolausok, David Morrison, Ishmael Alunik, et al.

Book Overview

This is the definitive, illustrated history of one of North America's most interesting and least known Native peoples: the Inuvialuit, the Inuit of the Mackenzie Delta. For hundreds of years they enjoyed a rich and secure lifestyle, augmented by great annual hunts of beluga and bowhead whales. All that changed with the arrival of Europeans, and particularly American whalers, in the late 19th century. Decimated by diseases and cultural dislocation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295983345
• ISBN13: 9780295983349
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 11.3"