Inuit Journey
by Iglauer, Edith

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In April 1999, the Inuit dream of a self-governing territory in the eastern Arctic -- Nunavut (Our Land) -- became a reality. In celebration of this historic event comes a new edition of Inuit Journey, a firsthand account of another turning point in Inuit history: the establishment in the early 1960s of member-owned, member-run Inuit cooperatives, which played a major role in the march toward independence. The book is the author's fascinating description of these seminal events, along with her equally moving account of her return visit to the Arctic in 1994, more than three decades later.

Edith Iglauer was on assignment for The New Yorker in 1961 when she went to the Canadian Arctic to write about the first Inuit co-operative. She accompanied a small party of Canadians led by Donald Snowden, a dynamic young idealist who had been hired by the Department of Indian Affairs in response to a crisis: the traditional food supply of the Inuit was disappearing; people were dying of starvation; the survivors were struggling to cope with a massive erosion of their way of life. Iglauer attended the historic gathering of government workers and Inuit leaders at George River (later renamed Kangiqsualujjuaq), where the first co-operative held its first business meeting.

It was an event that changed people's lives. Thanks to Snowden's belief that when people are given the chance, they make wiser decisions for themselves than others make for them, and thanks to the incredible imagination and stamina of the Inuit people at George River, who embraced the co-operative idea and who adapted many unfamiliar business and social practices to manage it, co-operatives proved invaluable as the Inuit movedtoward a new form of self-sufficiency.

Edith Iglauer travelled to the Arctic three more times in order to document the unfolding co-operative adventure. Her description of those first exciting years, 1961-64, was published in 1966 as The New People and later reissued as Inuit Journey. Now it appears again, as a straightforward, thoughtful and thoroughly gripping read, and as a record of a significant period in the Inuit journey toward independence. The new edition contains 20 previously unpublished black-and-white photographs, and a new preface and epilogue with updated information and Iglauer's affecting story of her own, more personal journey to revisit Kangiqsualujjuaq in 1994.

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ISBN-10:	1550172239
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781550172232
Author:	Iglauer, Edith
Publisher:	Harbour Publishing Madeira Park, BC
Publication Date:	2000
Pages:	254
Size/Dimensions:	6x9
Binding:	Paperback