These communities, really administrative centres for the white man, were not necessarily the best places for Inuit to live. There was no local economic base to support Inuit jobs, yet settling Inuit into villages had removed them, in many cases, from their favoured hunting and fishing grounds. This made cottage industries, such as selling soapstone carvings for goods at the co-op or northern store, vital to the Inuit economy. The hunters who had been able to leave their dogs to roam around the camp freely in their homeland suddenly found that their dogs were slaughtered by the police when they had inadvertently forgotten the 'new laws' to keep your dogs tied up. Without dogs the hunter was helpless.
Furs hang to dry on the clothesline outside while children inside watch American television.
A woman carrying her young child in her amauti drives a skidoo across the hamlet. Canada North of Sixty , Jurgen F. Boden and Elke Boden eds.