Trail as Home: Inuit and Their Pan-Arctic Network of Routes

This paper provides ethnographic and historical evidence for the existence, in time and space, of a network of well-established trails connecting most Inuit settlements and significant places across the Canadian Arctic. The geographic and environmental knowledge relating to trails (and place names a...

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Published in:Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal 2009-04, Vol.37 (2), p.131-146
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Arctic Canada
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Communication
Community structure
Culture
Ecology
Environmental Management
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Historic trails
Historical Development
History
Hunters and gatherers
indigenous knowledge
Indigenous Populations
Inlets
Inuit
Knowledge
Native North Americans
Oral knowledge
Place names
Snow
Snowmobile trails
Snowmobiles
Social Sciences
Sociology
Trails
Transportation
Travel
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Arctic Canada
Canada
Communication
Community structure
Culture
Ecology
Environmental Management
Exchange (Economics)
Geography
Historic trails
Historical Development
History
Hunters and gatherers
indigenous knowledge
Indigenous Populations
Inlets
Inuit
Knowledge
Native North Americans
Oral knowledge
Place names
Snow
Snowmobile trails
Snowmobiles
Social Sciences
Sociology
Trails
Transportation
Travel
Travelers
title Trail as Home: Inuit and Their Pan-Arctic Network of Routes
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