Eastern Arctic and Greenland Resources

The following list of publications, theses and other sources provides further information regarding the history of the Eastern Arctic and Greenland.


Allen, Robert C. and Ian Keay

2001   The First Great Whale Extinction: The End of the Bowhead Whale in the Eastern Arctic. Explorations in Economic History 38: 448-477.


Andrews J. T.

1988   Climatic Evolution of the Eastern Canadian Arctic and Baffin Bay During the Past Three Million Years. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 318 (1191): 645-660.


Arundale, Wendy Hanford

1981   Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology: A Flexible Approach. American Antiquity 48(2): 244-268.


Barlow L. K.

2001   The Time Period A.D. 1400-1980 in Central Greenland Ice Cores in Relation to the North Atlantic Sector. Climatic Change 48: 101-119.


Barry R.G., W.H. Arundale, J.T Andrews., R.S Bradley and H. Nichols

1977   Environmental Change and Cultural Change in the Eastern Canadian Arctic During the last 5000 years. Arctic and Alpine Research 9(2): 193-210.


Cormier, Catherine

2004   In the Name of Science, Entertainment and Empire: British Stereotypes of Eastern Arctic Inuit from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century. M.A. Thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.


Cranz, D.

1820   The History of Greenland, Including an Account of the Mission Carried on by the Brethren in that Country. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London.


Dawson, Peter Colin

Variability in Traditional and Non-traditional Inuit Architecture, AD. 1000 to Present. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary.


Egede, H.

1818   A Description of Greenland. T. and J. Allman, London.


Farid, Emma Louise

2000   A Multivariate Spatial Analysis of a Thule Dwelling from Assuukaaq Island, Northern Quebec. M.A. Thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary.


Fitzhugh William W.

1997   Biogeographical Archaeology in the Eastern North American Arctic. Human Ecology 25(3): 385-418.


Fitzhugh, William W., Stephen Loring, and Daniel Odess (editors)

2002   Honoring Our Elders: The History of Eastern Arctic Archaeology. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology Number 2. Arctic Studies Centre, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.


Gullason, Lynda

1999   Engendering Interaction: Inuit-European Contact in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island. Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal.


Gulløv, H.C.

1997   From Middle Ages to Colonial Times: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Studies of the Thule Culture in South West Greenland 1300-1800 AD. Meddelelser om Grønland, Man and Society 23, Copenhagen.


Gulløv, H.C.

1979   Haabetz Colonie 1721-1728: A Historical-Archaeological Investigation of the Danish-Norwegian Colonization of Greenland. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.


Henshaw, A. S.

2000   Central Inuit household economies: Zooarchaeological, environmental, and historical evidence from outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Canada. Bar International Series 871, Oxford, England.


Henshaw, Anne Stevens

1995   Central Inuit Household Economies: Zooarchaeological, Environmental, and Historical Evidence from Outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Canada. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge.


Ishiguro, Laura Mitsuyo

2008   Discourses And Practices of Isolation in the Implementation of Health Care in Ste. Therese's Hospital, Chesterfield Inlet, 1929--1958. M.A. Thesis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.


Johansen, Trine Bjorneboe

2012   A Zooarchaeological and Ethnographic Investigation of Subsistence Change through Time at Iita, Northwest Greenland. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Davis.


Kroes, Genevieve

1998   "The Esquimaux seem to be dying off very fast": Etude ethnohistorique des maladies a Fort Chimo, district d'Ungava (1866 a 1903). M.A. Thesis, Université Laval, Quebec City.


Labreche, Yves

2005   Appropriation et conservation des ressources alimentaires chez les Inuit de Kangiqsujuaq-Salluit, Quebec arctique: perspective ethnoarcheologique. Ph.D. Thesis, Université de Montréal, Montreal.


Laugrand, Frederic

1997   Siqqitiqpuq: Conversion et reception du christianisme par les Inuit de l'Arctique de l'Est canadien (1890--1940). Ph.D. Thesis, Université Laval, Quebec City.


Maxwell, M.S.

1985   Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic. Academic Press, Orlando.


McCullough, Karen M.

1989   The Ruin Islanders: Thule culture pioneers in the Eastern High Arctic. Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper No. 141, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull.


McAleese, Kevin

1991   The Archaeology of a Late 18th Century Sealing Post in Southern Labrador George Cartwright's 'Stage Cove'. M.A. Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.


Meldgaard, Morten

2004   Ancient harp seal hunters of Disko Bay: Subsistence and Settlement at the Saqqaq Culture Site Qeqertasussuk (2400-1400 BC), West Greenland. Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen. Man & Society Vol. 30.


Newman, Sherry Elizabeth

1998 "By One Attached to...But Not Of": Historical Photography of the Eastern Arctic By Luta Munday And Geraldine Moodie. M.A. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton.


Ouellette, Nathalie

2000   "Tuurngait" et chamanes inuit dans le Nunavik occidental contemporain. M.A. Thesis, Université Laval, Quebec City.


Savelle, James M.

2002   The Umialiit-Kariyit Whaling Complex and Prehistoric Thule Eskimo Social Relations in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Bulletin of National Museum of Ethnology 27(1): 159-188.


Schneider, L.

1985   Ulirnaisigutiit: An Inuktitut-English Dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador and Eastern Arctic Dialects. La Presse de l'Universite Laval, Quebec.


Scott, Colin (editor)

2001   Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador. UBC Press, Vancouver.


Searles, Edmund Quincy Sewall

1998   From Town to Outpost camp: Symbolism and Social Action in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle.


Smith, Jennifer S., Trevor Bell & Lisa Rankin

2003   Quaternary Geology and Landscape Change, Porcupine Strand, Labrador. In Current Research (2003) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey, Report 03-1, pp. 293-305.


Sørensen, Mikkel and H.C. Gulløv

2012   The Prehistory of Inuit in Northeast Greenland. Arctic Anthropology 49(1): 88-104.


Speiss, Arthur

1993   Caribou, Walrus and Seals: Maritime Archaic Subsistence in Labrador and Newfoundland. In Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honour of Stephen Williams, James B. Stoltman ed., pp. 73-100. Archaeological Report No. 25, Department of Archives and History, Mississippi.


Spink, J., and D.W. Moodie

1972   Eskimo Maps from the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Monograph No. 5, Cartographica, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto.


Stopp, Marianne P.

2002  Ethnohistoric analogues for storage as an adaptive strategy in northeastern subarctic prehistory. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 21(3): 301-328.


Tester, F., and P. Kulchyski

1994   Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocations in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63. UBC Press, Vancouver.


Whitridge, Peter

2006   Eskimo Architecture: Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic Period. Arctic 59 (2): 230-231.


Whitridge, Peter

2004   Landscapes, Houses, Bodies, Things: "Place" and the Archaeology of Inuit Imaginaries. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11(2): 213-250.


Whitridge, Peter

2002   Social and ritual determinants of whale bone transport at a classic Thule winter site in the Canadian Arctic. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 12(1): 65-75.


Whitridge, Peter

1999   The Construction of Social Difference in a Prehistoric Inuit Whaling Community. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University.