From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite : The Birth of Class and Nationalism among Canadian Inuit Book

	Maps and Figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Organizations
	Illustrations
1	A New Perspective on Development	3
2	At the Brink of Transition: Inuit Relationships at First Contact	29
3	Explorers and Itinerant Traders	49
4	The Whalers: Indigenous Practices Are Both Bolstered and Undermined	63
5	Traders, Missionaries, and Police: A Community of Interest	87
6	Economic, Ideological, and Political Transformation	117
7	The Little Colombo Plan: The State Makes Its Presence Felt	147
8	The State Organizes Cooperatives for Eskimos	164
9	Canadian Arctic Producers: "A Business of Which There are Few Parallels"	179
10	Quebec Pursues a Separate Destiny	196
11	The Federal Government as Promoter and Gatekeeper of Inuit Art	217
12	The Northwest Territories Cooperatives Federate; Inuit Producers Gain Control of CAP, and Dorset Defects	229
13	Convergence: CAP and CACFL Amalgamate and Quebec and the NWT Shake Hands	253
14	Hunters Become Producers of Arts and Crafts: The Effect of the Cooperative on Inuit Work and Means of Production	271
15	From Talking Chiefs to a Native Cooperative Elite: The Movement towards Class Relations	297
16	Nationalism and the Articulation of Capitalist and Indigenous Practices	321
17	Native Land Claims in Canada: A Push by the State to Promote Nonrenewable-Resource Exploitation	340
18	Development Corporations Challenge the Cooperatives and Complete Relations of Dominance	365
19	From Hunters and Fishers to Directors and Shareholders: Transformed Relations and Transformed Mode of Production	386
20	The Drive for Ethnoregional Rights: Resistance and Containment	405
21	The Struggle for Dominance	441
	Notes	465
	Bibliography	489
	Index	517