Skin for Skin : Death and Life for Inuit and Innu /

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 domina...

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Main Author: Sider, Gerald M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages).
ISBN:9780822377368
Access:Open Access