num_pages: 336
description: The view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. David Damas demonstrates that eventually, concerns over health, housing, and education and welfare brought about policy changes that inevitably led to centralization.
language: English
title: Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic (Volume 32)
titlecomplete: Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic (Volume 32) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press