Book
Nunaga: my land, my country
M.G. Hurtig Ltd. • Edmonton, Alta. • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Pryde, Duncan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a narrative of Pryde's experiences in the Northwest Territories of the Canadian Arctic, first as an employee of the Hudson Bay Company, and later (1966) as an elected member of the governing body of the Northwest Territories. The author begins with his first trading post assignment at Baker Lake in the Caribou Inuit territory, and then describes subsequent posts at Spence Bay, Perry Island, Bathurst Inlet, and Baychima in the Copper Inuit area. Although there is much information in this work on Pryde's personal experiences in the Arctic region (indexed for OCM category 114), there is also a wealth of data here on his close relationship with the Copper Inuit, as well as on the climate, travel conditions in the region, snowhouse construction, hunting, fishing, sealing, animal and plant life, birth, death, and marriage customs, and cultural changes in the Arctic as of 1970. The ethnographic information is well integrated into the author's personal account and provides the reader with an excellent overview of what life was like in the Northwest Territories of Canada during the period 1958-1970.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Hunting and trapping
- Marine hunting
- Fishing
- Travel
- Animal transport
- Extramarital sex relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Copper Inuit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Foreign Resident
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Duncan Pryde
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper Eskimos