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Postmedia News: Trove of Inuit hunters’ wisdom retrieved amid Lancaster Sound debate

November 12, 2010

Nearly 40 years after researchers captured the memories of aging Inuit hunters from Baffin Island about lives spent in pursuit of the polar bear, whale and walrus, that priceless trove of traditional knowledge has been recovered from the vaults of Library and Archives Canada to be used in defining the boundaries of a proposed — and controversial — national marine conservation area in Lancaster Sound.

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