Haneragmiut were a geographically defined Copper Inuit subgroup in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. They were the most westerly band of those that hunted in southern Victoria Island. They were generally located on the north shore of Dolphin and Union Strait, north of Cape Bexley, and south of Prince Albert Sound, on Victoria Island. Though they migrated seasonally both north and south for hunting, fishing, and trade, they were unaware that Victoria Island was an island.[1]

Ethnology

Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson discovered the Hanergmiut on May 17, 1910.[2] At the time, the Haneragmiut numbered approximately 40 people. Seasonally, a few Haneragmiut hunted and traded to the south on the mainland with another Cape Bexley subgroup, the Akuliakattagmiut, while other Haneragmiut migrated as far north as Tahiryuak Lake to hunt caribou with the Kanianermiut. The Ekalluktogmiut were situated to the east of the Haneragmiut.[1][3][4]

After his return to Seattle and New York City in 1912, Stefansson made the Haneragmiut, Kanhirgmiut and Nuwukpagmiut famous, referring to them as "Blond Eskimos".[2][5]

Later studies by anthropologist Diamond Jenness showed that the subgroups of Akuliakattagmiut, Haneragmiut, Kogluktogmiut, Pallirmiut, Puiplirmiut, and Uallirgmiut {also known as the Kanianermiut} were mixed through intermarriage and by family shifting.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1914). The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report. New York: The Trustees of the American Museum. pp. 26–36. OCLC 13626409.
  2. 1 2 "A NEW RACE, OR DESCENDANTS OF FRANKLIN'S PARTY?; Stefansson, Now in the Arctic Regions, Finds a Strange People in Victoria Land Who Give Rise to Interesting Theories of Their Origin" (PDF). The New York Times. 1911-10-08. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  3. ↑ Stefansson, V. (1914-12-30). "Prehistoric and Present Commerce among the Arctic Coast Eskimo". Geological Survey Museum Bulletin. 6: 14.
  4. ↑ "II. Central Eskimo". canadiangenealogy.net. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  5. ↑ "Stefansson's expeditions". thearctic.is. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  6. ↑ "Anthropology in the Canadian Arctic Expedition". Anthropologic Miscellanea. American Anthropological Association. 17 (4): 776–780. 1915. JSTOR 660004.


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