Inuit Sod Houses on a Contested Coast
Author(s): Marianne P. Stopp
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Anchored in Reginald Auger’s foundational research on Inuit presence in southern Labrador, and in the conference’s theme of revolution, this paper considers late 18th century Inuit resistance, loss, and persistence at a time when much of eastern North America was in upheaval. The American Revolution enveloped southern Labrador in direct and indirect ways. The archaeology of Inuit sod houses and documentary evidence are considered to show that the Inuit experience along that coast was acute and transformative and that Inuit society became deeply intersected with world systems of British, French, and American power politics and economies.
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Inuit Sod Houses on a Contested Coast. Marianne P. Stopp. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456917)
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Keywords
General
contact dynamics in late 18th century
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evidence from archaeology and archives
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Labrador Inuit
Geographic Keywords
Canada
Temporal Keywords
Late 18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -141.003; min lat: 41.684 ; max long: -52.617; max lat: 83.113 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 190