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Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - L

Tự điển chuyên ngành nông nghiệp thế giới Vol1 - Bắc Mỹ - Vần L | Labrador Inuit 201 Labrador Inuit ETHNONYM Labrador Eskimo Orientation Labrador Inuit refers to the native Inuit people of Labrador a section of Canada that is now within the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland. Scholars have recently suggested that the Inuit of Labrador are more accurately classified as two groups the Labrador Inuit on the coast of the Labrador Sea in Newfoundland and the Inuit of Quebec on the coasts of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait and in the interior of Labrador. Aboriginally the Labrador Inuit lived along the coast of the Labrador Sea from the Button Islands south to Cape Charles. In 1772-1773 there were about 1 460 Labrador Inuit in this region. Today they live primarily north of Cape Harrison in the villages of Postville Makkovik Hopedale and Nain and number about 2 000. Also found in this region are people labeled Settlers who are descendants of Inuit-White marriages that occurred with considerable frequency after 1763. Settlers are generally not considered Inuit and have had greater access to European-Canadian society and a more stable socioeconomic position than the Inuit. Aboriginally the Inuit of Quebec were composed of three regional bands the Siqinirmiut on the coastline of Ungava Bay the Tarramiut in the northernmost section of Quebec Labrador and the Itivimiut on the coast of Hudson Bay and inland south of the Tarramiut. In the early nineteenth century they numbered about 2 000 and in 1969 numbered 3 561. History and Cultural Relations Contacts with the Labrador Inuit before 1700 generally involved hostilities with European whalers and fishermen. Initial relations with French traders who began arriving in 1700 were also characterized by hostility but eventually gave way to peaceful trade with the Inuit supplying cod and seal to the trading posts in southern Labrador. From 1763 to 1949 the Inuit were in contact with the British and over that period the culture was transformed from an isolated hunter-gatherer one to one reliant on .