Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

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Notes on Orthography and Terminology
Introduction

Part One - CONTINUITY: The Natural Environment, Culture, and Human History

Geography and Climactic History of Ellesmere Island
High Arctic Ecosystems and Human History
Inughuit Culture in the High Arctic, 1800-1900
The Inuit on Ellesmere Island and Exchanges with the Inughuit in the Nineteenth Century
European Cultures in the High Arctic 1818-1940

Part Two - CIRCUMSTANCE: History of Events on Ellesmere Island, 1818-1940

Early Exploration of the High Arctic by Europeans, 1818-1940
"Mine at Last:" Robert E. Peary's Polar Expeditions, 1890-1909
Assertion of Canadian Soverigenty over the High Arctic, 1985-1940
Adventures, Big-Game Hunters, and Scientists on Ellesmere Island, 1934-40

Part Three - CHANGE: The Interplay of Cultures and the Environment 1818-1940

Material and Technological Adaptations of the Contact Era
Intercultural Relations in the Contact Era
Cultural Contact and High Arctic Ecology, 1818-1940

Part Four - CIRCUMSTANCE, CHANGE, AND CONTINUITY: Inuit on Ellesmere Island, 1950-2000

Circumstance: Relocations of the Inuit to the High Arctic, 1950-2000
Change: Adaptation to New Natural and Cultural Environments, 1951-2000
Continuity Reasserted: Inuit, the Seasons, and the Land, 1951-2000

Conclusion: Ellesmere Island and the Times of History

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