I, Nuligak - Nuligak, Maurice Metayer (ed)
KORTE INHOUD
When the book I, Nuligak was published in 1966 it was not only recognized as the very first Inuvialuit autobiography but also highly praised for offering a glimpse of a time and place that few Canadians knew existed.
Nuligak – or Bob Cockney as the Missionaries later christened him – was born in 1895 in Kittigazuit, a traditional Inuvialuit community near the eastern edge of the Mackenzie River delta. This was a time of great change, American whaling ships had entered the Beaufort Sea a few years earlier and had established a base-of-operations on Herschel Island (see map). Their ships became a familiar sight in the waters off the Mackenzie Delta and the adjacent Arctic coast.
The Americans brought both prosperity and suffering for Nuligak’s people. Wage employment on whaling ships, and trading of furs and meat for American manufactured goods, made some Inuvialuit wealthy while also exposing them to alcohol and disease.
Nuligak wrote, “Being orphaned early, the first years of my life were spent in poverty and ha...
Nuligak – or Bob Cockney as the Missionaries later christened him – was born in 1895 in Kittigazuit, a traditional Inuvialuit community near the eastern edge of the Mackenzie River delta. This was a time of great change, American whaling ships had entered the Beaufort Sea a few years earlier and had established a base-of-operations on Herschel Island (see map). Their ships became a familiar sight in the waters off the Mackenzie Delta and the adjacent Arctic coast.
The Americans brought both prosperity and suffering for Nuligak’s people. Wage employment on whaling ships, and trading of furs and meat for American manufactured goods, made some Inuvialuit wealthy while also exposing them to alcohol and disease.
Nuligak wrote, “Being orphaned early, the first years of my life were spent in poverty and ha...
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Nuligak, Maurice Metayer (ed): I, Nuligak, 1966, First edition.
Price clipped cover, slightly foxed at the edges, but otherwise g/vg in mylar cover; book in great shape, as new. VG! Very rare book in this condition!
Price clipped cover, slightly foxed at the edges, but otherwise g/vg in mylar cover; book in great shape, as new. VG! Very rare book in this condition!
