The Eskimo Rental Housing Program (1965-69): A Case Study in Cold War Authoritarian High Modernism
Journal: Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
Year: 2015

During the Cold War years of 1965-1970, the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Development implemented the Eskimo Rental Housing Program (ERHP) across parts of the Central and Eastern Arctic. Using the work of Inuit graphic artists alongside archival visual culture materials, this thesis argues against previous claims that the program was instituted as a welfare-improving measure in the Arctic, instead providing evidence that the ERHP was an act of acculturation, meant to sedentarize and