History and Renewal of Labrador's Inuit-Métis

John C. Kennedy, ethnographer and historical anthropologist, made his first field trip to Labrador in 1971, and taught Anthropology at Memorial University between 1973 and 2004. He is the author of several books, including Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community (ISER Books, 1982), People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of the Communities of the Unknown Labrador (University of Toronto Press, 1995), Labrador Village (Waveland Press, 1996), Island Voices: Fisheries and Community Survival in Northern Norway (Eburon, 2006), and the forthcoming Encounters: An Anthropological History of Southeastern Labrador (McGill-Queen’s University Press).

• List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgements x Contributors xiii 1 Introduction John C. Kennedy 1 2 Inuit Settlement on the Southern Frontier Lisa Rankin 38 3 Exploring the Communal House Phase in Sandwich Bay Phoebe Murphy and Lisa Rankin 62 4 Big Men, Big Women, or Both? Examining the Coastal Trading System of the Eighteenth-Century Labrador Inuit Amelia Fay 75 5 The Many Habitations of Pierre Constantin: The French Presence in Southern Labrador in the Early Eighteenth Century Amanda Crompton 94 6 The Inuit-Métis of Sandwich Bay: Oral Histories and Archaeology Laura Kelvin and Lisa Rankin 120 7 The Story of William Phippard Patricia Way 135 8 "I, Old Lydia Campbell": A Labrador Woman of National Historic Significance Marianne P. Stopp 155 9 ". . . That Between Their Church and Ours There Is Hardly Any Difference": Settler Families on Labrador's North Coast Join the Moravian Church Hans J. Rollmann 180 10 "We Don't Have Any Klick or Spam in the House— How About a Piece of Boiled Salmon for Lunch?": Country Food in NunatuKavut Gregory E. Mitchell 215 11 Identity Politics John C. Kennedy 241 12 Conclusions John C. Kennedy 263 Index 267