Encounters on the Passage : : Inuit Meet the Explorers / / Dorothy Harley Eber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Eber, Dorothy Harley ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In Encounters on the Passage, present day Inuit tell the stories that have been passed down from their ancestors of the first encounters with European explorers. In many of these stories the old cosmogony is still in place, with shamans playing starring roles opposite "the strangers intruding on the Inuit lands." Dorothy Harley Eber presents stories told to her about the expeditions of Sir Edward Parry, Sir John Ross, Sir John Franklin, and the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and sets them squarely in historical context. In the case of the disasterous Franklin expedition, new information opens up another fascinating chapter on the Franklin tragedy. Collected over twelve years on visits to communities in Nunavut, these remarkable stories of expeditionary forces and their dealings with native peoples will be new and exciting reading for those interested in the search for the Northwest Passage, the Franklin tragedy, and traditions of oral history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology and Maps of Principal Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Arctic Expeditions by Sea -- Prologue: Opening Salvos -- 1 Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry in Igloolik and the Shaman’s Curse -- 2 John Ross at Kablunaaqhiuvik – the ‘Place for Meeting White People’ -- 3 The Franklin Era: Burial of a Great White Shaman -- 4 The Death Marches: ‘They were seen carrying human meat’ -- 5 New Franklin Stories: The Ship at Imnguyaaluk -- 6 A Northwest Passage on Foot – and Lost Opportunity -- 7 Norwegian Victory: ‘Amusi’ and the Prize -- 8 Modern Times -- Appendix One: Rumours of Hudson -- Appendix Two: Charles Francis Hall and the Lost Men -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index