 | From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite: The Birth of Class and Nationalism among Canadian Inuit Subjects: Inuit -- Canada -- Economic conditions; Inuit -- Canada -- Social conditions; Inuit -- Canada -- Politics and government; Cooperative societies -- Canada Northern; From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite traces the development of class relations and collective identity among Canadian Inuit over several centuries of contact with Western capitalism. Marybelle Mitchell provides a complete history of Inuit-white relations, starting with the first contact with European explorers in the sixteenth century and ending with ratification of the Nunavut proposal to create an Inuit homeland through division of the Northwest Territories. |
