 | People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography Subjects: Pitseolak Peter 1902–1973; Inuit -- Northwest Territories -- Cape Dorset; Inuit -- Northwest Territories -- Cape Dorset -- Biography; Peter Pitseolak, the first native Baffin Island photographer, was born in the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1902. As a child he lived the nomadic camp life his ancestors had known, but during his lifetime missionaries, fur traders, law, government, schools, and alcohol came to Baffin Island. Peter Pitseolak's account of his life in People from Our Side shows how these developments changed the Inuit existence forever. Eber Dorothy Harley : Dorothy Harley Eber is the author of Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic and, with Peter Pitseolak, People from Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs and Oral Biography. She lives in |
