1. Netsilik or Netsilingmiut People

3. Netsilik or Netsilingmiut Traditional life Historical experience Contemporary challenges

5. Hudson Bay caribou salmon Netsilingmiut John Ross
Names and Terms
Hudson Bay caribou salmon Netsilingmiut John Ross
whalers gill net snowmobile soapstone Inunnaqtan

7. Inuit people who live on the Arctic coast of Canada west of Hudson Bay
Traditional Life
Inuit people who live on the Arctic coast of Canada west of Hudson Bay
lived in small shifting family groups with simple non-hierarchical social organization
hunted for seal, caribou, muskoxen and polar bear
fished for salmon, trout, and char
Netsilingmiut spoke a dialect of Inuktitut
fashioned tools from caribou antler

9. Historical Developments 1829 British John Ross Expedition
traded furs with whalers and explorers; adopted outside trade goods
introduction of gun changed cooperative hunting practices and the sharing of harvest; gill net increased harvests
Protestant missionaries in 1876; Catholic impact after 1930s
snowmobiles replaced dog-sleds; trapping ceased in 1980s due to environmentalist pressures

10. Contemporary Challenges
economy shifted to tourism and soapstone carved artworks
dependence on support from the outside
(government)
preservation of culture through emphasis of “true inuit way” or inunnaqtun; self-imagery and ethnic symbol
pressures from the outside world: English, education, and the internet
climate change and the impact on sea ice