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Social Science Native American Studies

Keeping the Faith

Memory and History in Nunavut Volume Three

by (author) Frédéric B. Laugrand, Jarich Oosten & Maaki Kakkik

Publisher
Nunavut Arctic College
Initial publish date
Feb 2012
Category
Native American Studies, Missions, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896204581
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $40.00

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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.

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Maaki Kakkik is an Inhabit Media author of Akinirmut Unipkaaqtuat.

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