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Kiumajut (Talking Back)

Game Management and Inuit Rights, 1900-70

By: Peter Kulchyski,Frank James Tester

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Kiumajut (Talking Back)

Game Management and Inuit Rights, 1900-70

By: Peter Kulchyski,Frank James Tester

Kiumajut [Talking Back]: Game Management and Inuit Rights 1900-70 examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on two interrelated issues. The first is how a deeply flawed set of scientific practices for counting animal populations led policymakers to develop policies and laws intended to curtail the activities of Inuit hunters. Animal management informed by this knowledge became a justification for attempts to educate and, ultimately, to regulate Inuit hunters. The second issue is Inuit responses to the emerging regime of government intervention. The authors look closely at resulting court cases and rulings, as well as Inuit petitions. The activities of the first Inuit community council are also examined in exploring how Inuit began to “talk back” to the Canadian state. The authors’ award-winning previous collaboration, Tammarniit [Mistakes]: Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic 1939-63, focused on government responsibility, social welfare, and relocation in Inuit relations with the state. Kiumajut is not a continuation of Tammarniit, but rather an interrelated, stand-alone study that examines a separate range of issues relevant to a historical understanding of community development in Nunavut. Kiumajut draws on new material compiled from archival sources and from an archive of oral interviews conducted by the authors with Inuit elders and others between 1997 and 1999. This volume provides the reader with new and important insights for understanding this critical period in the history of Inuit in Canada.

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UBC Press

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0774855525

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Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations

By: Frank James Tester,Krista Ulujuk Zawadski

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Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations

By: Frank James Tester,Krista Ulujuk Zawadski

A ground-breaking account of multiple forced relocations by the Canadian government of Inuit communities and individuals. All have been the subject of apologies, but are little known beyond the Arctic. The Inuit community has proven resilient to many attempts at assimilation, relocation and evacuation to the south. In a highly visual and appealing format for young readers, this book explores the many forced relocation of Inuit families and communities in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s to the 1990s. Governments promoted and forced relocation based on misinformation and racist attitudes. These actions changed Inuit lives forever. This book documents the Inuit experience and the resilience and strength they displayed in the face of these measures. Years afterwards, there have been multiple apologies by the Canadian government for its actions, and some measure of restitution for the harms caused. Included in the book are accounts of a community forced to move to the High Arctic where they found themselves with little food and almost no shelter, of children suddenly taken away from their families and communities to be transported to hospitals for treatment for tuberculosis, and of the notorious slaughter by RCMP officers of hundreds of sled dogs in Arctic settlements. Though apologies have been made, Inuit in northern Canada still face conditions of inadequate housing, schools that fail to teach their language, and epidemics of infectious diseases like TB. Yet still, the Inuit have achieved a measure of self-government, control over resource development, while they enrich cultural life through music, film, art and literature. This book enables readers to understand the colonialism and racism that remain embedded in Canadian society today, and the successful resistance of Inuit to assimilation and loss of cultural identity. Like other volumes in the Righting Canada’s Wrongs series, this book uses a variety of visuals, first-person accounts, short texts and extracts from documents to appeal to a wide range of young readers.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1459416678

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9781459416673

Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63

By: Frank Tester,Peter Kulchyski

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Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63

By: Frank Tester,Peter Kulchyski

Through an examination of the roles of relief and relocation in response to welfare and other perceived problems and the federal government's overall goal of assimilating the Inuit into the dominant Canadian culture, this book questions the seeming benevolence of the post-Second World War Canadian welfare state. The authors have made extensive use of archival documents, many of which have not been available to researchers before. The early chapters cover the first wave of government expansion in the north, the policy debate that resulted in the decision to relocate Inuit, and the actual movement of people and materials. The second half of the book focuses on conditions following relocation and addresses the second wave of state expansion in the late fifties and the emergence of a new dynamic of intervention.

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UBC Press

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0774842717

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Optimizing Quality in Electronics Assembly: A Heretical Approach

By: James Allen Smith,Frank B. Whitehall

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Optimizing Quality in Electronics Assembly: A Heretical Approach

By: James Allen Smith,Frank B. Whitehall

In a radical departure from the dozens of other quality books, this one makes the case that the traditional TQM procedures used in the electronics assembly field are not only ineffective-they contribute to many failures. The only book to focus exclusively on quality in electronics manufacturing-& to propose a measurable cost/benefit methodology-this provocative volume shows what's lacking in current quality programs, & how fresh approaches can yet avoid a quality "catastrophe" in the electronics industry. Along the way, numerous quality myths are exploded, hidden issues are confronted, & an array of electronics specific solutions are offered.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0070592292

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Kiumajut (Talking Back)

Kiumajut (Talking Back)

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations

Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Optimizing Quality in Electronics Assembly: A Heretical Approach

Optimizing Quality in Electronics Assembly: A Heretical Approach

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