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As hunting companion, pack and draught animal, the Inuit dog ( Canis familiaris borealis) enhanced the ability of the Inuit and their ancestors to move from place to place, toting their few belongings, in the constant search for game. With the ability to travel being central to the successful survival of northern cultures, the value of the working dog is immeasurable. The dog of the northern people, therefore, is called the Inuit dog. The designation of Inuit was officially adopted for all "Eskimos" at the Inuit Circumpolar Conference held in Barrow, Alaska, the United States, in 1977. It was in the 1970s, in Canada, that the name Inuit all but replaced Eskimo in general usage. found it possible to cope with the conditions of a polar environment without their dogs" (Soper, 1981). "It is difficult to visualize that there ever was a time in their struggle for existence during which the Eskimo. Travel, therefore, was central to their lives, and their dogs indispensable. As the animals moved so did the Arctic people, their subsistence needs linked intimately to the hunt. With cultivation of the land never an option and the gathering activity only peripheral to their diet, the reliance on animals for survival was total. Although caribou make use of the plentiful mosses and lichens found on the tundra, the human population has always needed to obtain its food from a higher level in the food chain. This is a desert environment where diminutive plants grow no more than a few inches above the ground capturing the little radiated heat available. Small clusters of the Dorset, Thule and Inuit cultures have travelled the vastness of the Arctic landscape for 4 000 years, following the seasonal movements of animals from the land and sea.īaffin Island, located in northeastern Canada (see Map), is the largest island in the Arctic archipelago and the resting place for the southernmost ice-caps in North America. Finally, the Science Institute of the NWT-East is thanked for its support.Ĭanada's Arctic is an environment that, historically, could support only a modest population of hunter-gatherers per square kilometre.
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MacRury, Inuit dog driver and devotee, is thanked for all expert advice and assistance. Of the Nonthwest Territories, PO Box 1198, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories, Canada Lynn Peplinski is the Manager of the Iqaluit Research Centre, Science Institute The dogs of the Inuit: companions in survival