From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Aboriginals: Inuit/
The most complete description of Inuit prehistory, traditional culture, and contemporary history to 1980 is the Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 5, Arctic, edited by David Damas (Washington, D.C., 1984). Other general introductions to Canadian Inuit culture include Asen Balikci’s The Netsilik Eskimo (Garden City, N.J., 1970), and Hugh Brody’s Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North (Vancouver, 1987). Brody has also published an insightful description of contacts between Inuit and Euro-Canadians: The People’s Land: Inuit, Whites and the Eastern Arctic (Vancouver, 1991). Released much earlier but not outdated yet is Nelson Graburn’s Eskimos without Igloos: Social and Economic Development in Sugluk (Boston, 1969), which describes cultural and social change in a small Arctic Quebec community. A more recent community study is Louis-Jacques Dorais, Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community (Toronto, 1997).
Keith Crowe’s A History of the Original Peoples of Northern Canada (Montreal, 1991) is probably the most popular introduction to northern aboriginal history, while Quentin Duffy’s The Road to Nunavut: The Progress of the Eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War (Montreal, 1989) offers a more specialized overview of recent political developments in the Canadian Arctic.
In the fields of Inuit language and literature, Louis-Jacques Dorais presents a thorough description of the linguistic situation of the Canadian Inuit in “The Canadian Inuit and their Language,” in D.R.F. Collis ed., Arctic Languages: An Awakening (Paris, 1990), 185–289. A few Inuit authors are cited in the text. An excellent autobiography is Minnie Aodla Freeman’s Life Among the Qallunaat (Edmonton, 1978). The best anthology of Inuit literature is Robin (McGrath) Gedalof and Alootook Ipellie’s Paper Stays Put: A Collection of Inuit Writing (Edmonton, 1979).
In addition to the Inuit periodicals listed in this essay, the Inuit Art Quarterly published in Nepean, Ont., by the Inuit Art Foundation since 1986, deals with all forms of Inuit art, while Études/Inuit/Studies, published at l’Université Laval, Quebec City, since 1977, is a scholarly (though generally readable) journal treating Inuit and Yupik anthropology, archaeology, history, art, language, and present-day conditions.
