Our ice is vanishing: sikuvut nunguliqtuq: a history of inuit, newcomers and climate change

425 Pages·2014·9.857 MB·English

by  Wright, Shelley

Our Ice Is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq
McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series
(In memory of Bruce G. Trigger)
Sarah Carter and Arthur J. Ray, Editors
1 When the Whalers Were Up North 11 When the North Was Red
Inuit Memories from the Eastern Aboriginal Education in Soviet Siberia
Arctic Dennis A. Bartels and Alice L. Bartels
Dorothy Harley Eber
12 From Talking Chiefs to a Native
2 The Challenge of Arctic Shipping Corporate Elite
Science, Environmental Assessment, The Birth of Class and Nationalism
and Human Values among Canadian Inuit
Edited by David L. VanderZwaag Marybelle Mitchell
and Cynthia Lamson
13 Cold Comfort
3 Lost Harvests My Love Affair with the Arctic
Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Graham W. Rowley
Government Policy
14 The True Spirit and Original Intent
Sarah Carter
of Treaty 7
4 Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council
The Existing Aboriginal Right of with Walter Hildebrandt, Dorothy
Self-Government in Canada First Rider, and Sarah Carter
Bruce Clark
15 This Distant and Unsurveyed Country
5 Unravelling the Franklin Mystery A Woman’s Winter at Baffin Island,
Inuit Testimony 1857–1858
David C. Woodman W. Gillies Ross
6 Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and 16 Images of Justice
China Goods Dorothy Harley Eber

The Maritime Fur Trade of the
17 Capturing Women
Northwest Coast, 1785–1841
The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery
James R. Gibson
in Canada’s Prairie West
7 From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare Sarah A. Carter
The Story of the Western Reserves
18 Social and Environmental Impacts of
Helen Buckley
the James Bay Hydroelectric Project
8 In Business for Ourselves Edited by James F. Hornig
Northern Entrepreneurs
19 Saqiyuq
Wanda A. Wuttunee
Stories from the Lives of Three
9 For an Amerindian Autohistory Inuit Women
An Essay on the Foundations of Nancy Wachowich in collaboration
a Social Ethic with Apphia Agalakti Awa,
Georges E. Sioui Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and
Sandra Pikujak Katsak
10 Strangers Among Us
David Woodman
20 Justice in Paradise 31 The Heavens Are Changing
Bruce Clark Nineteenth-Century Protestant
Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
21 Aboriginal Rights and Self-
Susan Neylan
Government
The Canadian and Mexican 32 Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
Experience in North American The Transformation of Inuit Settle-
Perspective ment in the Central Arctic
Edited by Curtis Cook and David Damas
Juan D. Lindau
33 Arctic Justice
22 Harvest of Souls On Trial for Murder –Pond Inlet,
The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism 1923
in North America, 1632–1650 Shelagh D. Grant
Carole Blackburn
34 The American Empire and the
23 Bounty and Benevolence Fourth World
A History of Saskatchewan Treaties Anthony J. Hall
Arthur J. Ray, Jim Miller, and
35 Eighteenth-Century Naturalists
Frank Tough
of Hudson Bay
24 The People of Denendeh Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and
Ethnohistory of the Indians of Mary Houston
Canada’s Northwest Territories
36 Uqalurait
June Helm
An Oral History of Nunavut
25 The MarshallDecision and Compiled and edited by John Bennett
Native Rights and Susan Rowley
Ken Coates
37 Living Rhythms
26 The Flying Tiger Lessons in Aboriginal Economic
Women Shamans and Storytellers Resilience and Vision
of the Amur Wanda Wuttunee
Kira Van Deusen
38 The Making of an Explorer
27 Alone in Silence George Hubert Wilkins and the
European Women in the Canadian Canadian Arctic Expedition,
North before 1940 1913–1916
Barbara E. Kelcey Stuart E. Jenness
28 The Arctic Voyages of Martin 39 Chee Chee
Frobisher A Study of Aboriginal Suicide
An Elizabethan Adventure Alvin Evans
Robert McGhee
40 Strange Things Done
29 Northern Experience and the Myths Murder in Yukon History
of Canadian Culture Ken S. Coates and
Renée Hulan William R. Morrison
30 The White Man’s Gonna Getcha 41 Healing through Art
The Colonial Challenge to the Crees Ritualized Space and Cree Identity
in Quebec Nadia Ferrara
Toby Morantz
42 Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing 54 Kiviuq
Coming Home to the Village An Inuit Hero and His Siberian
Peter Cole Cousins
Kira Van Deusen
43 Something New in the Air
The Story of First Peoples Television 55 Native Peoples and Water Rights
Broadcasting in Canada Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in
Lorna Roth Western Canada
Kenichi Matsui
44 Listening to Old Woman Speak
Natives and Alternatives in 56 The Rediscovered Self
Canadian Literature Indigenous Identity and Cultural
Laura Smyth Groening Justice
Ronald Niezen
45 Robert and Francis Flaherty
A Documentary Life, 1883–1922 57 As affecting the fate of my absent
Robert J. Christopher husband
Selected Letters of Lady Franklin
46 Talking in Context
Concerning the Search for the Lost
Language and Identity in
Franklin Expedition, 1848–1860
Kwakwaka’wakw Society
Edited by Erika Behrisch Elce
Anne Marie Goodfellow
58 The Language of the Inuit
47 Tecumseh’s Bones
Syntax, Semantics, and Society
Guy St-Denis
in the Arctic
48 Constructing Colonial Discourse Louis-Jacques Dorais
Captain Cook at Nootka Sound
59 Inuit Shamanism and Christianity
Noel Elizabeth Currie
Transitions and Transformations
49 The Hollow Tree in the Twentieth Century
Fighting Addiction with Traditional Frédéric B. Laugrand and
Healing Jarich G. Oosten
Herb Nabigon
60 No Place for Fairness
50 The Return of Caribou to Ungava Indigenous Land Rights and Policy in
A.T. Bergerud, Stuart Luttich, and the Bear Island Case and Beyond
Lodewijk Camps David T. McNab
51 Firekeepers of the Twenty-First 61 Aleut Identity
Century Tradition and Modernity in an
First Nations Women Chiefs Indigenous Fishery
Cora J. Voyageur Katherine L. Reedy-Mascher
52 Isuma 62 Earth into Property
Inuit Video Art Aboriginal History and the Making
Michael Robert Evans of Global Capitalism
Anthony J. Hall
53 Outside Looking In
Viewing First Nations Peoples in 63 Collections and Objections
Canadian Dramatic Television Series Aboriginal Material Culture in South-
Mary Jane Miller ern Ontario, 1791–1914
Michelle A. Hamilton
64 These Mysterious People 71 Setting All the Captives Free
Shaping History and Archaeology Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection
in a Northwest Coast Community in Allegheny Country
Susan Roy Ian K. Steele
65 Telling It to the Judge 72 Before Ontario
Taking Native History to Court The Archaeology of a Province
Arthur J. Ray Edited by Marit K. Munson and
Susan M. Jamieson
66 Aboriginal Music in Contemporary
Canada 73 Becoming Inummarik
Echoes and Exchanges Men’s Lives in an Inuit Community
Edited by Anna Hoefnagels and Peter Collings
Beverley Diamond
74 Ancient Pathways, Ancestral
67 In Twilight and in Dawn Knowledge
A Biography of Diamond Jenness Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom
Barnett Richling of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern
North America
68 Women’s Work, Women’s Art
Nancy J. Turner
Nineteenth-Century Northern
Athapaskan Clothing 75 Our Ice Is Vanishing/
Judy Thompson Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq
A History of Inuit, Newcomers,
69 Warriors of the Plains
and Climate Change
The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare
Shelley Wright
Max Carocci
70 Reclaiming Indigenous Planning
Edited by Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola,
and David Natcher
Our Ice Is Vanishing
Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq
A History of Inuit, Newcomers,
and Climate Change
Shelley Wright
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston •London •Ithaca
©McGill-Queen’s University Press 2014
isbn978-0-7735-4462-8(cloth)
isbn978-0-7735-9610-8(epdf)
isbn978-0-7735-9611-5(epub)
Legal deposit third quarter 2014
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
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financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book
Fund for our publishing activities.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Wright, Shelley, author
Our ice is vanishing = Sikuvut nunguliqtuq : a history of Inuit,
newcomers, and climate change / Shelley Wright.
(McGill-Queen’s native and northern series ; 75)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
isbn978-0-7735-4462-8(bound).–isbn978-0-7735-9610-8(epdf).–
isbn978-0-7735-9611-5(epub)
1. Inuit–Canada–History. 2. Sea ice–Social aspects–Arctic coast
(Canada)–History. 3. Climatic changes–Social aspects–Canada,
Northern–History. 4. Canada, Northern–Climate–History. 5. Canada,
Northern–History. 6. Canada, Northern–Social conditions. 7. Canada,
Northern–Environmental conditions–History. I. Title. II. Title: Sikuvut
nunguliqtuq. III. Series: McGill-Queen’s native and northern series ; 75
e99.e7w75 2014 971.9004’9712 c2014-902067-8
This book was designed and typeset by studio oneonone in Sabon 10.2/13
Dedicated to the memory of
Lucien Ukaliannuk, lld (University of Victoria)
Elder-in-Residence of the Akitsiraq Law School
and
to my mother
Betty Wright