Michigan State University Press | Muskox Land

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Lyle Dick

has been a historian with Parks Canada for many years. He lives in Vancouver, B.C., where he is currently the West Coast Historian for Parks Canada's Western Canada Service Centre. He has writte...

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Muskox Land
Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

Lyle Dick

Winner of the 2002-2003 Harold Adam Innis Award for best English- language book in the social sciences

Historian Lyle Dick analyses relations between Native People and Europeans in the Ellesmere Island region of Canada's High Arctic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a revealing work on both polar exploration and the sensitive issue of cultural contact. Muskox Land is a comprehensive study of European- Inuit contact in the High Arctic, including the roles played by the natural environment, culture, circumstance, and historical change arising during the era of exploration. Highlighted are discussions of material exchanges and adaptations, coupled with the many stresses precipitated by natural forces, the dynamics of contact and the progression of events during this period.

". . . definitely makes a significant contribution to Arctic history and anthropology. I am sure that the Inuit of Canada and the Inughuit of Greenland will be pleased to see that their voices are finally being heard! There is no other work which delves with such depth into the subject matter."

—Rick Riewe, University of Manitoba

University of Calgary Press

8 color illustrations, 65 b/w illustrations,
20 maps, 3 graphs
Endnotes
Bibliography
Parks & Heritage Series, No. 5
U.S. Rights
631 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", 2001
Paper, $34.95,

1-55238-050-5
978-1-55238-050-5

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