Social Science Native American Studies
Keeping the Faith
Memory and History in Nunavut Volume Three
- Publisher
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2012
- Category
- Native American Studies, Missions, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896204581
- Publish Date
- Feb 2012
- List Price
- $40.00
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Description
This book is a compilation of letters from Edmund James Peck to the first Christian converts in Nunavut. Peck was an Anglican missionary who travelled to the north to convert Inuit to Christianity. He travelled among the Inuit between 1874 and 1905 and learned the language of the locals, earning him the Inuit name of Uqammaq (he who speaks well). When he returned to Ottawa in 1905, he published the first English-Inuit dictionary and Inuit grammar book.
About the authors
Frédéric B. Laugrand is professor of anthropology at Université Laval and FNRS Fellow at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and co-author of Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformation in the Twentieth Century. Jarich G. Oos
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Jarich Oosten (1945–2016) was emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Leiden University and the author of numerous publications.
Maaki Kakkik is an Inhabit Media author of Akinirmut Unipkaaqtuat.