Full Description
History and Renewal of Labrador's Inuit-Métis is a collection of twelve essays presenting new research on the archaeology, history, and contemporary challenges and perspectives of Inuit-Métis of central and southeastern Labrador from Lake Melville south to Chateau Bay. It reports on results from "Understanding the Past to Build the Future," a Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in partnership with the southern Labrador communities represented by the NunatuKavut Community Council. Contributing authors include veteran Labrador Studies specialists as well as emerging scholars. Many of their findings challenge longstanding assumptions about Labrador's Aboriginal history.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgements x
Contributors xiii
1 Introduction John C. Kennedy 1
2 Inuit Settlement on the Southern Frontier Lisa Rankin 38
3 Exploring the Communal House Phase in Sandwich Bay Phoebe Murphy and Lisa Rankin 62
4 Big Men, Big Women, or Both? Examining the Coastal Trading System of the Eighteenth-Century Labrador Inuit Amelia Fay 75
5 The Many Habitations of Pierre Constantin: The French Presence in Southern Labrador in the Early Eighteenth Century Amanda Crompton 94
6 The Inuit-Métis of Sandwich Bay: Oral Histories and Archaeology Laura Kelvin and Lisa Rankin 120
7 The Story of William Phippard Patricia Way 135
8 "I, Old Lydia Campbell": A Labrador Woman of National Historic Significance Marianne P. Stopp 155
9 ". . . That Between Their Church and Ours There Is Hardly Any Difference": Settler Families on Labrador's North Coast Join the Moravian Church Hans J. Rollmann 180
10 "We Don't Have Any Klick or Spam in the House— How About a Piece of Boiled Salmon for Lunch?": Country Food in NunatuKavut Gregory E. Mitchell 215
11 Identity Politics John C. Kennedy 241
12 Conclusions John C. Kennedy 263
Index 267
