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  1. Table of Contents
  2. Introduction
    1. Navigating Northern Environmental History
  3. Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Environments
    1. Moving through the Margins: The “All-Canadian” Route to the Klondike and the Strange Experience of the Teslin Trail
    2. The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North
    3. Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane
    4. Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars
  4. Part 2: Transformations and the Modern North
    1. From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State’s Involvement in Food and Diet in the North, 1900–1970
    2. Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability’s Canadian History
    3. Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic
  5. Part 3: Environmental History and the Contemporary North
    1. “That’s the Place Where I Was Born”: History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada’s North
    2. Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon
    3. Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North
    4. Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledge in the Northern Environment
    5. Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change
  6. Conclusion
    1. Encounters in Northern Environmental History
  7. Contributors
  8. Index

Index

A

abandoned mines, 378–79, 380–81, 386–87, 408

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC) (also: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, or INAC), 380–81, 399, 401

acid mine drainage, 380, 387

aerial surveying, 18, 20, 22, 87, 107–8, 134–35, 142–43, 164–67, 275, 507

aircraft, 14, 20, 103—20, 123—26, 164, 273, 506

air routes, 110–12, 122, 125

airscapes, 104, 114

Aklavik, 84, 88, 90, 193, 203

Alternatives North, 384, 401–2

Anderson, Rudolph, 70

anthropology, 5, 24, 73, 232–33, 252, 445, 472, 502, 507

anthropology, applied 233–34, 502, 507

antimodernism, 132–33, 136, 138–140, 143, 145–46, 148, 152, 168–69, 510, 512

Arctic Bay, 194

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), 466

Arctic Council, 29, 454, 480

Arctic Dilemma, 445, 508

Arctic Environmental Strategy, 440, 443–44

arctic haze, 427, 429, 430–33, 435, 452

Arctic Institute of North America, 8

Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment, 480

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, 444, 447–48

Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, 18

Armstrong, Jeannette, 299, 302

arsenic, 381–84, 387–92, 399–401, 405, 407, 423

Arviat, 231. See also Eskimo Point

Asbestos Hill, 236

Ashcroft Trail, 52

Assinica Valley, 324

atmospheric pollution, 426–27, 438

atmospheric science, 422, 425, 430–32, 435–36, 447, 452

Avalon Rare Metals, 405

aviation, 6, 7, 15, 18, 20–21, 104–7, 109, 111–12, 114, 122–125, 134, 275, 427, 502–3, 505, 507–9, 511–12

B

back–to–nature movement, 139, 152

Baffin Island, 72–75, 91, 185, 192, 194, 213, 277, 423, 426, 437, 475

Baker Lake, 243, 483

bands (Indian Act), 341, 343–44

bannock mix, 203, 206

Barrenlands, 145, 223, 227, 230, 232, 238, 243, 251

Beaulieu, Joseph “Souci”, 148–50

beaver reserves, 322–23

Begg, Alexander, 42–43

Berger, Thomas, 17, 28

“Black” Basile, 148–49

Blanchet, Guy, 7, 131–33, 135–53, 158–59, 163–69, 505–6

blubber, 195

Boothia Peninsula, 194

boundaries, boundary–making, 339

Bourassa, Robert, 296, 306–7, 312–13

Brack, D.M., 243–44

breastfeeding, 188, 198, 204

Bringhurst, Robert, 300, 303

Broadback River, 324

Brock River, 295

Broughton Island, 421, 437, 439, 441, 443

Budgell, Max, 242

Bureau of Biological Survey (U.S.), 75, 77–79, 81

bureaucracy; bureaucratization, 18, 67, 69, 251, 334, 341, 357, 359–60, 364–65, 502, 510

bush flying, 104, 107, 112, 122–23, 125

bush planes, 104–5, 109, 113, 122–23, 125. See also bush flying

C

Cambridge Bay, 194, 282

Canadian Airways, 104, 106–7, 109–10, 115, 117–18, 122–24

Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1918 70, 72

Canadian Arctic Indigenous Peoples Against POPs, 448

Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 438

Canadian Council on Nutrition, 197

Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), 391

Canadian Reindeer Project, 6, 63–93, 503, 510

Canadian Shield, 103–4, 107, 140, 296

Canadian Wildlife Service, 24, 239–41, 429

Cape Dorset, 194–95

caribou, 5, 9, 14–17, 19, 23, 26–8, 64, 66, 68–70, 72, 141, 148–49, 151, 181, 184–87, 200, 210, 223, 227, 239–40, 250, 325, 403, 428, 430, 435, 441, 451, 474, 501, 503

carrying capacity, 79–86, 92, 124, 227, 239, 240–41, 250

Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and the Environment, 444–45

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN), 357–60, 361–62

Charest, Jean, 306–7, 316

Chesterfield Inlet, 193, 196

Chibougamau, 295–96, 317

Chipewyan Dene, (Denesuline) 132, 148–49, 151–52, 393

Citizens’ Committee in Aklavik, 203

Cladonia, 80–83, 84–86

cleanliness (sanitation), 188

climate change, 4, 10, 12–13, 18, 21, 426, 436, 451, 468, 471–74, 479, 483–84, 487, 500–501, 507– 8, 513

climate change, arctic, 92, 465–68, 471, 476, 480, 485–87

climate science, 12–13, 481–82, 508

Cockney, Lucy, 209

Cold War, 4, 7–8, 15, 24, 28, 90, 206, 226–27, 261, 263, 266–69, 272, 274, 280, 282, 423, 426–27, 429, 430, 447, 453, 507–8, 511–12

Colomac Mine, 386, 405

colonialism, 5, 6, 9, 13, 21, 25–26, 28, 182, 230, 232–33, 248, 252, 298–99, 305, 307, 315, 317, 484, 485, 504

colonization, 5–6, 13, 16–17, 19, 21, 26, 64, 298–99, 315, 387, 502

Cominco (also Consolidated Mining and Smelting, or CM&S) 393, 396, 403–4

Con Mine 384–85, 388–89, 399

conservation officer districts, 352, 354

Coon Come, Matthew, 298–99, 316

cooperatives, 246–48, 249–50

co–management, 11, 17–19, 344, 348, 364, 474, 482, 502, 506, 513

Commercial Airways, 117–18, 123

Comminterphone, 244

community development, 9, 228, 230, 245–48, 250–51

contaminants, 5, 10, 12, 18, 26, 193, 380, 383, 421–54, 500–501, 503–5, 507–11, 513

Cory, W.W., 75–78

Council for Yukon Indians, 342

Cree, 11, 17, 25, 196, 295–326, 502, 506, 510–11

Creswell Bay, 194, 196, 213

cyanide, 387–88

D

Dailey, Lois, 238, 249

Dailey, Robert, 238, 249

Daly Bay, 240, 242, 250

dams, 9, 15, 20, 267–68, 298–99, 313, 316, 500, 513

DDT, 423–24, 429–30, 433–34, 441

Defence Research Board, 24

Dene, 10, 25, 68, 132, 148–49, 151–52, 168, 192, 233, 386–89, 392–93, 396, 400–402, 407– 8, 439, 450

Deninu Ku’e First Nation, 404

Department of Agriculture (U.S.), 81–82

Department of Health, 197

Department of Interior (Canada), 63, 65–66, 74, 77–78, 87, 93

Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 8, 201, 226, 228, 230–32, 236–41, 243– 47, 249–50, 277

Department of Regional Economic Expansion, 241

Dettah, 381, 388–89, 391, 407

DeVilliers, Dr. A.J., 390–91

Dewailly, Eric, 421, 437, 447

Diavik Mine, 386

Diefenbaker, John, 4, 226, 228

disease, 5, 8–9, 15–16, 75, 189–91, 195–96, 303, 441–42, 446, 466, 500

Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, 8, 9, 15, 90, 206, 232, 263–84, 423, 447, 500–501, 503–4, 506– 7, 510, 513

Dominion Explorers Limited (Domex), 134, 141–42, 154–55, 157

Douglas Bay (Great Bear Lake), 158–59

Douglas, George, 7, 131–32, 133, 135–37, 140–41, 152–63, 164–69, 505–6

Douglas, James, 140–41

E

Eagle Island (Great Slave Lake), 156, 159, 160, 162

ecology, 23–24, 27

Eeyou Istchee, 295, 297, 300, 303, 305, 307–8, 313, 315–21, 323–26, 509

Ekati Mine, 386

Elton, Charles, 23

environment, cultural images of, 107–8

environmental justice, 298, 300, 320

envirotech, 105–6, 125, 513

envirotechnical objects and systems, 104, 110–12, 125

epidemics, 189–90, 191, 212

Eskimo Point, 224, 231–32, 242–43. See also Arviat

ethnohistory, 304–5, 320–21

expertise, scientific, 424, 442–43, 446–47

F

family allowances, 9, 197, 204–6, 212–13, 225, 502

Finnie, O.S., 74–78, 84, 86, 88, 133, 187–88, 196

fire, 14, 15, 20, 24, 49, 157, 184, 363, 427, 500

firewood, 363, 506

fish, 15, 17, 25, 41, 54, 89, 147–48, 182, 184–87, 189–90, 192–93, 203, 210–11, 213, 236, 239, 242–43, 250, 321, 344, 346, 349, 352, 357, 359, 386–87, 393, 401, 433, 439, 484

Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 8, 24

food colonialism, 9, 182, 504

food, country, 8, 9, 17, 186, 188, 190–91, 194, 198, 201–2, 208, 210, 212–14, 242–43, 425–26, 437–42, 444–45, 447, 449, 452, 454

forestry, 79, 103, 307, 309, 313–14, 324

Fort Good Hope, 119, 198

Fort McPherson, 185, 193

Fort Providence, 193

Fort Resolution, 193, 209, 381, 393, 395–96, 403–5

Fort Ross, 194

fur trade, 5, 8, 17, 18, 23, 26, 70–71, 109–11, 147, 200, 204, 304, 322, 341, 395, 407, 474, 503

G

game management zones, 352, 353, 357

game reserves, 6, 15, 17

gangrene, 194–95

gardens (mission gardens), 198, 211

gender, 165, 271, 304, 438, 509, 513

Geological Survey of Canada, (GSC) 8, 20, 43, 46, 48, 56, 73, 91,

Giant Mine, 381, 384–85, 388–92, 393, 398, 399–403, 405, 407

Gibson, Roy, 196, 200, 204–5, 211

Glenora, British Columbia, 36–37, 40, 42–3, 45–48, 50–51, 53

globalization, 320, 484

Great Bear Lake, 2, 6, 26, 86, 122, 124, 133–34, 137, 140–41, 153–55, 157–59, 162, 165, 168–69, 186, 386, 507, 509

Great Slave Lake, 6, 111, 133–34, 137, 142, 149, 155–56, 158, 162, 165, 167–68, 190–91, 381, 384–87, 392, 394, 398, 405–6, 505, 507

growth pole, 241

Gwich’in, 183, 185

H

Hanbury, David, 185

Harper, Stephen, 308

Harrington, Richard, 196, 223, 225–27

Hay River, 192, 193, 237, 381, 393, 398, 403, 405

heavy metals, 380, 382–83, 387 393

Herschel Island, 186

high modernism, 9, 91, 266–68, 274, 281, 510

Hoare, W. H. B., 23

Hoffmann, Erich, 242

Hudson Bay, 195

Hudson’s Bay Company, 5, 19, 23, 25, 47, 72–74, 187–88, 197–200, 204, 206, 211, 231–32

Hunt, L.A.C.O., 201, 204

hunting rights, 344, 348–49, 360

Hydro Quebec, 296, 314, 315

hydroelectric projects, 9–11, 15, 17

I

ice blinks, 3, 4, 513

Iglauer, Edith, 242, 248

Indian Act, 68, 334, 341, 343–44

Indigenous people(s), 3, 5–6, 8, 11–4, 16–18, 21, 25–26, 28–29, 40–41, 50, 142, 146–47, 149, 152, 168, 186–88, 195–96, 198, 200–206, 208–9, 211–13, 226, 234, 239, 242, 251, 281–82, 298, 312, 333–34, 349

Industrial Division, 239, 242, 246, 249, 362, 365–6, 408, 426, 444–45, 447–48, 466, 471–79, 481, 501–4, 512–14

industry, military role in, 266–70, 275

influenza, 16, 69, 189–91, 194

Interdepartmental Reindeer Committee, 69, 78, 89–91

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 466

International Polar Year, 186, 451

Inuit, 5, 9–10, 17–18, 21, 23–25, 27, 64–65, 67–72, 77–79, 84–85, 87–92, 151, 168, 185–88, 190, 192–96, 200–202, 204–6, 213, 223, 225–27, 230–32, 234–40, 242–44, 247–52, 282, 312, 395, 421–22, 427–28, 434, 436, 438–39, 442, 466–67, 471, 475, 479–80, 482, 484, 502–3

Inuit, and climate change, 466, 484

Inuit Circumpolar Conference/Council (ICC), 421, 466, 479

Inuvialuit, 10, 69, 88, 90, 186, 203, 207, 209, 281–82

J

Jackson, Sheldon, 67

James Bay, 11, 17, 28, 196, 206, 295, 303, 306–7, 309–10, 312–15, 319, 322, 501–2, 513

James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, 11, 17, 310–312, 313, 315, 323, 502

Jenness, Diamond, 70

Jennings, Francis, 303

Johnson, Joe, 357–60

jurisdiction, political, 334–35, 339, 346, 350–51, 359, 366

K

Kaanoowapmaakin, 297, 310–11, 317, 321–24, 326

K’atl’odeeche First Nation, 381, 393, 398

Kayoomyk, 195

Keewatin, 76, 86–87, 143, 196, 214, 223–28, 231–35, 239–44, 249–52, 317, 322, 395

Keith Arm (Great Bear Lake), 157

Kent, Margaret (also Witte, Peggy), 404–5

King, Thomas, 298–99

kinship, 340, 348, 361, 506, 511

Kivalliq, 223. See also Keewatin

Klondike Gold Rush, 4, 6, 16, 26, 36–37, 40–41, 54, 65, 506

Kluane First Nation (KFN), 335, 337, 345–46, 357–60, 361–63

knowledge, Indigenous, 8, 10–11, 13, 17–18, 24–27, 424–25, 441–43, 473–81, 508

knowledge, local, 10, 23, 115, 268, 281, 445, 452, 468–81, 484, 487, 509

knowledge, scientific, 10, 22–24, 64, 82, 92–93, 280, 424–25, 453, 482, 508, 513

L

LaBine, Gilbert, 141–42, 157

Lac Doré, 296

La Grande River, 310, 312

Laidlaw, Alexander, 247–49

Lake Athabasca, 134, 158

land claim agreements, 333–35, 342–43, 346, 349, 351, 365–66

land claims, 4, 10–11, 17–19, 25, 333, 341, 343, 349, 430, 503

lead (metal), 384, 386

Learmonth, L. A., 194

Lesage, Jean, 226, 249

Lopp, W. T., 73–74, 76

Lotz, Jim, 251

Lutselk’e (Snowdrift), 190

Lynn Lake, 236

M

Mackenzie Air Services, 123

Mackenzie and Mann (engineering firm), 42–47, 50

Mackenzie Delta, 10, 22, 26, 64, 69, 78–79, 84–90, 207, 242, 429,

Mackenzie District, 72, 104, 106–7, 109–15, 117–18, 121–25, 134, 143, 190, 201. See also Mackenzie River

Mackenzie River, 64, 68, 118, 133, 153, 156, 191, 198, 207, 233–34, 439

Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (MVEIRB), 401

Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, 17, 24

Mackenzie, William, 42

Malaurie, Jean, 238

Mangilaluk, 69

Mann, Donald, 42

Martin, Calvin, 304

McClellan, Catharine, 340–41

McKeand, D. L., 196

McKibben, Bill, 249

Métis, 192, 202

Migratory Birds Convention, 6, 15

militarization, 9, 264, 275, 474

military, 4, 7–9, 16, 18–20, 24, 26, 93, 137, 203, 211, 261, 264, 266–77, 280–84, 304, 502–4, 511–12

miners, 4, 6, 16, 21, 26, 36, 38, 40–41, 47–55, 186, 234, 236, 386–87, 408, 500

mining, 8, 12, 15–16, 20–21, 378–408, 500–501, 503, 507

Mishigamish, 325

Mitchell, Timothy J., 230

mobility, 13, 26–7, 29

modernism; modernity, 9, 26, 91, 53–54, 106, 108, 126, 153, 155, 169, 233, 266–68, 281, 381, 434, 442, 510

Momaday, N. Scott, 297, 299

Moses, Myra, 181, 183

Mowat, Farley, 9, 196, 225–27

N

Nagle, Ed, 392

Nansen, Fridtjof, 426

National Indian Brotherhood, 391

Ndilo, 381, 388, 391, 400, 407

Negus Mine, 384–85, 388–89

Nelson, E. W., 75–81

Netsilingmiut, 195

Neville, F. J., 246

Norn, Charlie, 192

Norn, Frank, 192

North, as empty, 108, 116

North, as frontier, 108, 120

North, as heroic space, 120

North, as pristine, 423, 430, 438, 451, 454

North, as resource frontier, 107–8

North, definitions of, 3–4, 10, 21, 27–29, 107–8, 506, 510, 512

North, degrees of, 120

North, exceptionalism, 118–20

North Rankin Nickel Mining Company, 228, 234–35, 238, 249

Northern Aerial Mineral Exploration (NAME), 134, 154, 156–57

Northern Contaminants Program, 380, 440, 443–51, 503

Northern Coordination and Research Centre (NCRC), 232, 236, 238

nostalgia, 132, 153, 155, 163, 168

Nunavik, 437, 449

nutrition (nutritional science), 9, 24, 80, 182, 183–85, 189–91, 197–98, 200–214, 437, 440, 442, 445, 447, 504, 507, 510–11

O

odeyak, 11, 312

Ogilvie, William, 46

Ouje Bougoumou, 296, 309

outfitting concessions, 352, 355

Outpost Island, 386

P

Pablum, 204

Paix des braves, 314, 324, 502

Palmer, Lawrence, 75, 77, 79–84, 85, 87, 92

Pangnirtung, 194, 233

PCBs, 423–24, 429, 433–34, 437–38, 441

Peluso, Nancy, 339, 352, 361

Perroux, François, 241

persistent organic pollutants (POPs), 421, 423, 433–36, 448

petroleum, 10, 15, 509

Pett, L. B., 201

photography, 8, 9, 20, 22, 107–8, 164, 277

Pike, Warburton 44–46

Pine Point 381, 383–85, 393–94, 396, 398, 407

Pine Point Mine 381, 392–98, 403–6, 407

Pine Point Mines, Ltd. 392–93

Plan Nord 306–7, 316

polar bears 3, 5, 14, 18, 27, 198, 429, 434, 514

political ecology, 319–23, 513

Pond Inlet, 192–94

Porsild, Alf Erling, 6, 63–65, 73, 77–79, 84–89, 92–93, 508

Porsild, Robert, 6, 77–79, 84–86, 92, 508

Port Radium, 168, 186, 383–84

potlatch, 358

primitivism, 146–47, 149–51

property, 333–35, 349–50

provincial norths, 27, 37

Q

Quiet Revolution, 306

R

radioactive fallout, 427–29, 430

railways, 4, 36–37, 42–47, 51, 54–55, 111, 228, 394–95, 406, 500, 507, 509, 511

Rankin Inlet, 193, 206, 232, 235, 237, 239–40, 242–45, 250, 384

Rankin Inlet Nickel Mines, 384, 387, 395

rations, 188, 190–91, 200–204, 212–13, 502–3

reciprocity, 25, 321, 340, 348, 361–62, 506

reclamation (mines), 379–80, 393, 406

regional development, 228, 230, 241–44, 250, 378, 510

Reindeer Grazing Preserve, 69–70, 89

Reindeer Station, 64, 85, 89–91, 93

relief (government), 187–88, 193–94, 197, 200–205, 211–13, 395, 502–3

relocations, 16, 193–95, 213, 474, 502–4

remediation (mines), 379–84, 386, 398–402, 407–8

Renewable Resources Council, 344, 346, 349, 361, 364

residential schools, 9, 17, 21, 191–93, 198, 208, 210, 212, 506

Robertson, R. Gordon, 247, 394

Rowley, Graham, 21

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 23, 40, 68, 109, 187, 190–91, 194, 200, 206–8, 231–32, 250

Royal Commission on Canada’s Economic Prospects, 241

Royal Commission on Muskox and Reindeer, 71–72, 74, 84, 87

Royal Oak Mines, 399, 405

Rudnicki, Walter, 231–32, 249, 252

Rupert River, 314–15

Russell Bay (Great Bear Lake), 157

Russian Arctic, 423

S

Saami, 64, 67, 73, 78–79, 81–82, 84–85, 87–89, 508

Sack, Robert, 334–35, 338, 340, 357

scale (of analysis), 13–14, 54, 121, 242, 251, 266, 283, 298–99, 301, 352, 425, 448, 467–73, 477, 480, 487

Schaefer, Otto, 212

Schweitzer, Doug, 249–50

Scott, James, 54, 267

Second World War, 7, 18, 26, 65, 93, 168, 200, 213, 227–29, 242, 265, 269, 271, 275, 322, 384, 387–88

self-government (Indigenous), 4, 10–11, 247, 333–35, 341–44, 350, 365–66

settlement lands, 335, 337, 349–51, 357, 363

sharing accords, 348, 359–60, 362

Sifton, Clifford, 42–44, 50

Sivertz, Ben, 201–2, 204, 206

Skagway, Alaska, 36

Slave Lake Gold Mines, 386

Snap Lake Diamond Mine, 386

Snowden, Donald, 239, 242, 246, 248–49, 251–52

Somerset Peninsula, 194

sovereignty, 17–18, 24, 65, 200, 297, 308, 316, 318, 324, 348, 365, 471

starvation, 8–9, 66, 148, 151, 185, 190, 193–94, 213, 223, 225–27, 230–32, 234, 239, 244, 248, 501

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 71–74, 76, 78, 91, 141

Stevenson, David, 236–37

Stikine route, 36, 38, 42–47. See also Teslin Trail

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), 448, 479

Suluk, Thomas, 248

surveys (health, nutrition), 6, 197, 207–10, 212–13, 391, 434, 437, 439, 502

sustainability, 228–30, 240, 250, 252, 408

sustainable development, 18, 227, 229, 239–40, 243, 249, 252, 502–3

T

Tahltan, 40, 50

Tamerlane Ventures, 403–4

technology, 104–5, 119–20, 125–26

technopolitics, 266, 269–70, 280, 283–84

Telegraph Creek, 35–37, 39–40, 42, 47, 50–51

territory; territoriality, 334–35, 338–39, 340, 344, 351–60, 361–64, 365–66

Teslin Trail, 37, 40–41, 47–53. See also Stikine route

Teslin, Yukon Territory, 37, 40, 42–47, 51, 54. See also Teslin Lake

Thongchai Winichakul, 338, 351

Thubun River, 162

Tisdall, Frederick, 198–99

Tlingit, 38, 49–50

Topographical Survey of Canada, 133, 138, 142

toxicology, 422, 425, 435, 440, 445, 447, 452

toxins, 210, 380, 387

traces (inscriptions), 136–37, 149, 151, 153, 158–59, 162, 167–68

traditional territory, 315, 335–37, 344–50, 357–58, 361, 364, 401

trapping concessions, 352, 356–57

Treaty 8, 190, 392

Treaty 11, 68, 190

“tribe”, the problem of, 340

trichinosis, 194–95

Trudeau, Pierre, 241

Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River), 185

tuberculosis, 196, 200–201, 203–4, 207–8, 214

Tungsten, Northwest Territories, 236

Turner, Frederic Jackson, 307

Turner, John Herbert, 42–45

V

Vandergeest, Peter, 339, 352, 361

Vermont, 314–15

vitamins, 195, 197–98, 203, 206, 210–11

W

walrus, 192, 194–95

Waswanipi, 324

watery geographies, 110–12

Watt-Cloutier, Sheila, 421, 425, 438, 448, 466, 479

Welcome to Pine Point (National Film Board documentary), 381

Wensley, Gordon, 244

Western Electric Company, 261–84

Whale Cove, 224, 242–43

whaling, 14, 26, 67–68, 192, 466

Whitehorse Mining Initiative, 407

White River First Nation (WRFN), 360

wildlife science, 22

“will to improve”, 227, 230, 249, 471

Williamson, Robert G., 232–38, 244

Willis, J. S., 201

Wood Buffalo National Park, 5, 15, 186, 242

World Bank, 319

Wrangell, Alaska, 38, 42, 47, 49–51

X

X–ray, 207

Y

Yellowknife, 12, 15, 158, 161, 165, 168, 193, 236–37, 381–82, 384–86, 388–91, 397, 399, 401–2, 405, 407

Yellowknives Dene (First Nation), 388–89, 392, 400–402

Yukon-Canadian Railway, 44, 51, 53

Yukon River, 36, 40, 42

Yukon Territory, 501–2, 506, 510–11

Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA), 11, 342

Z

zinc, 111, 381, 383–84, 386–87, 392–94, 403–4

“zombie” mines, 12, 380–81, 384, 407–8, 506

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