Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern by Peter Kulchyski, Frank Tester

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By Peter Kulchyski, Frank Tester

Among 1939 and 1963, the government launched into a application of relocation and aid within the japanese Arctic that will dramatically modify the lives of Inuit dwelling there. This publication files how the advance of the Canadian welfare kingdom coincided with makes an attempt to assimilate Inuit and arrange their lives in keeping with Western rules in regards to the relatives, paintings, and group. This coverage ended in many ‘tammarniit’ (mistakes) that ended in social disruption and cultural disintegration, or even contributed to loss of life between Inuit.

The authors have made broad use of archival files, lots of which were unavailable to researchers prior to, between them the Alex Stevenson assortment, which was once kept within the files of the Northwest Territories. they've got additionally interviewed many key people who have been concerned with occasions in the course of the interval. the result's a compelling and sobering examine the evolution of Canadian coverage within the North and its tragic results on Inuit.

Tammarniit is key examining for an individual focused on present-day debates approximately self-government for aboribinal humans. through rigorously exmaining the relationships between monetary and social welfare issues, Canadian cultural biases, in addition to administrative and political matters, Tammarniit offers a finished evaluation of policymaking in this interval in addition to perception into the topics of resistance and renewal that have emerged between Inuit.

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Nevertheless, commencing in the 1920s, a debate emerged among those with responsibility for the Are Inuit Indians? North over whether assistance should be provided. In almost the same terms, the debate would continue through to the 1950s. The basic language of this debate was established by 1922. In the memo of 6 October 1922 to Scott, Inspector Canku advances the following argument. It would, undoubtedly, be a great mistake to inaugurate a broad system of assistance through relief issues. Charity, even in such places will lead to pauperization as quickly, if not more so, than in civilization.

As Dominion anthropologist, and employee of government, Diamond Jenness helped the federal government prepare its case. He might have easily been persuaded that an argument about the distinctiveness of Inuit culture could save them from what he knew by then to have been the serious consequences of the Indian Act. ' The Supreme Court justices all emphasized the application of the term 'Indian' to Inuit. For example, Chief Justice Duff argued that 'it appears to me to be a consideration of great weight ...

Chapter 2 deals with the first wave of expansion of government interest in the North, an expansion coterminous with the development of the liberal welfare state in the postwar era. It also corresponds to the development of other social programs, like family allowances and pensions for Inuit. The provision of these welfare programs had a dramatic impact on Arctic affairs. Chapter 3 examines the policy level debates that would lead to a decision to relocate Inuit from relatively southern communities on the east coast of Hudson Bay to the high Arctic.

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