Relocating Eden

The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic

By: Alan Rudolph Marcus

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Paperback | 1 June 1995

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In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the cold and barren lands of the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents' promises of plentiful game, virgin land, and a lifestyle untainted by Western Influences, these "voluntary migrants," who soon numbered nearly ninety, found instead isolation, hunting limited by game preserve regulations, three months of total darkness each winter, and a government suddenly deaf to their pleas to return home. The question, still unresolved forty years later, is whether these "experiments" were a well-intentioned governmental attempt to protect the Inuit way of life or a ploy to lure innocent people to exile, hunger, and deprivation in order to solidify Canada's Cold War sovereignty in the far North.

Alan Rudolph Marcus outlines the motives behind the relocation, case histories of two settlements, and the aftermath of the migration. Relocating Eden provides a timely and provocative inquiry into issues of continuing importance to Canada and all native peoples.

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Choice" The principal merits of this well-researched and well-referenced book are its evenhanded treatment of an emotional topic and its refusal to set aside scholarly inquiry for apolitically inspired explanation of how and why Eden did not occur.-- "Choice" "The principal merits of this well-researched and well-referenced book are its evenhanded treatment of an emotional topic and its refusal to set aside scholarly inquiry for apolitically inspired explanation of how and why Eden did not occur." --Choice

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Terminology
Introduction	p. 1
Images of the Inuit	p. 11
Film Imagery of the Happy-Go-Lucky Eskimo	p. 11
Nanook Reborn as Joseph Idlout	p. 14
Stark Images of Another North	p. 15
Henry Larsen's Views on Inuit Welfare	p. 20
Publicly Identifying the "Eskimo Problem"	p. 25
The Fur Trade and Inuit Dependency	p. 27
Competition to Exert Social Control over the Inuit	p. 30
Bringing Order to a "Disordered" People	p. 32
The People of the Crown	p. 36
Port Harrison and the Problems of Arctic Quebec	p. 36
"White Man's Handouts" and the Reform Movement	p. 43
Inuit Settlement Patterns and the Argument for Rehabilitation	p. 46
Self-Reliance, Resources, and Relocation	p. 48
Geopolitical Perceptions of the Northern Frontier	p. 49
Re-establishing "Effective Occupation" of the High Arctic	p. 54
Ultima Thule: Reoccupation of the High Arctic Islands	p. 59
The Eskimo Loan Fund and Resettlement Initiatives	p. 61
Relocation to the High Arctic	p. 67
Officials Take Remedial Action	p. 67
The "Migration" Selection Process: Recruits for Reform	p. 72
Classification of Inuit for Relocation	p. 82
The Relocation and Dividing of the Families	p. 83
Controversy and External Perspectives	p. 86
Thule Ruins and Site Selection	p. 91
Social Reform and Survival	p. 93
A Lack of Services	p. 99
The Process of Adaptation	p. 101
The "Garden of Eden"	p. 101
Guards and Guides	p. 111
Looking for Eve	p. 113
Relocating the Carvers	p. 114
Right of Return	p. 117
"Eskimos Fly to New Hunting Grounds"	p. 127
The Ahiarmiut of Ennadai Lake	p. 127
Relocation to Nueltin Lake	p. 134
Back at Ennadai Lake	p. 136
Plans for a Second Ahiarmiut Relocation	p. 137
Before and After Life	p. 141
Relocation from Ennadai Lake to Henik Lake	p. 144
Difficulties Develop at Henik Lake	p. 146
Relocation Aftermath, Henik Lake, 1958	p. 149
Relocation on Trial	p. 153
A Postmortem on the Ahiarmiut Relocation	p. 153
The Slayings and Kikkik's Statement	p. 154
The Preliminary Hearing	p. 158
Crisis Management of the Ahiarmiut Deaths	p. 159
The Department's Investigation of the Truth	p. 161
The Deaths Reconstructed	p. 168
The Trial of Kikkik	p. 171
Influencing Public Perceptions of the Relocations	p. 179
Farley Mowat, Crusader for Truth	p. 179
Controlling Discourse for the Common Good	p. 184
Multiple Realities	p. 189
The Aftermath: Reflections on Relocation	p. 195
The End of the Experiment	p. 195
Positive Views	p. 197
Dissenting Voices	p. 200
A Sense of Place	p. 206
The Final Drawing Back	p. 208
Utopia on Trial	p. 214
Epilogue	p. 224
Appendix A: List of Inuit Relocated to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay, 1953-55	p. 227
Appendix B: Inuit Relocated to Henik Lake, 1957	p. 230
Appendix C: Presentation Given by the Author to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at a Public Hearing in Ottawa on 30 June 1993	p. 232
Appendix D: List of Individuals Interviewed for This Study	p. 239
Appendix E: Biographical Details of Officials and Other Whites	p. 242
References	p. 247
Index	p. 267
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