Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vsgnj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-18T01:31:51.487Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The number of Eskimos: an Arctic enigma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Extract

Eskimo-speaking peoples inhabit Arctic lands that extend some 6 400 km longitudinallyfrom Chukotka to Greenland. This enormous territory comes under the administration of four nations: Canada, Denmark, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and United States of America. As citizens of these nations, Eskimos are becoming more and more enmeshed in the cultures and economies of their respective industrial societies, with the result that, as in other underdeveloped regions of the world, their numbers have increased markedly in therecent past

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Arctic Circular. 1953. The 1951 census in the Northwest Territories. Vol 6 No 4, p 3743.Google Scholar
Armstrong, Terence. 1965. Russian settlement in the north. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Babb, James D. Jr. ed. 1972. Age and sex characteristicsof Alaska's population. Alaska Review of Business and Economic Conditions, Vol 9, No 1.Google Scholar
Canada, . Dominion Bureau of Statistics. 1971. Canada Year Book 1970–71. Ottawa.Google Scholar
Denmark, . Ministeriet for Grønland. 1971. Grønland 1969–70 Arsberetning. Kobenhavn.Google Scholar
Gurvich, I. S. and Fineberg, L. A. 1965. [Commentary.] Current Anthropology, Vol 6, No 1, p 5960. [Commentary on: HUGHES, Charles Campbell. Under four flags: recent culture change among the Eskimos, Grønland, p 354.]Google Scholar
Jenness, Diamond. 1922. The life of the Copper Eskimos. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–18, Vol 12. Ottawa.Google Scholar
Mooney, James. 1928. The aboriginal population of America north ofMexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol 80, No 7.Google Scholar
Oswalt, Wendell H. 1967. Alaskan Eskimo. San Francisco, Chandler Publishing Company.Google Scholar
Rogers, George W. 1971. Alaska native population trends and vital statistics, 1950–1985. University of Alaska, Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research (ISEGR Research Note).Google Scholar
Rowley, Graham. 1972. The Canadian Eskimo today. Polar Record, Vol 16, No 101, p 201–05.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shabad, Theodore. 1971. Ethnic groups of the USSR. Soviet Geography: Review and Translation, Vol 12, No 8, p 537–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Swanton, John R. 1952. The Indian tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 145.Google Scholar