Skin for skin : death and life for Inuit and Innu /

Skin for skin : death and life for Inuit and Innu /

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Author / Creator:	Sider, Gerald M., author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 288 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Narrating native histories Narrating native histories.
Subject:	Innu Indians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Social conditions. Inuit -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Social conditions. Innu Indians -- Health and hygiene -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Inuit -- Health and hygiene. Inuit -- Social conditions. Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13417318

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ISBN:	9780822377368 0822377365 9780822355212 0822355213 9780822355366 0822355361
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-282) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as to the end of the fur and sealskin trades.
Other form:	Print version: Sider, Gerald M. Skin for skin. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 9780822355212 9780822355366
Standard no.:	https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377368

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Summary:	Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence. He relates acts of communal self-destruction to colonial and postcolonial policies and practices, as well as to the end of the fur and sealskin trades. Autonomy and dignity within Native communities have eroded as individuals have been deprived of their livelihoods and treated by the state and corporations as if they were disposable. Yet Native peoples' possession of valuable resources provides them with some income and power to negotiate with state and business interests. Sider's assessment of the health of Native communities in the Canadian province of Labrador is filled with potentially useful findings for Native peoples there and elsewhere. While harrowing, his account also suggests hope, which he finds in the expressiveness and power of Native peoples to struggle for a better tomorrow within and against domination.<br>
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xix, 288 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-282) and index.
ISBN:	9780822377368 0822377365 9780822355212 0822355213 9780822355366 0822355361