This comprehensive study of the Naskapi Indians of Labrador is based on an anthropologist's life with them between 1966 and 1968, when families still followed the traditional pattern of hunting on the barrens during the winter and returning to their costal settlements in the summer.

Foreword by Robert Paine Preface Introduction PART I: THE SETTING Chapter 1. The Naskapi and their Environment PART II: THE WORLD OF THE HUNTER Chapter 2. Nomads in the Barren Lands Chapter 3. Leadership in the Barren Ground World Chapter 4. Socio-Territorial Groupings PART III: SEDENTARIES UNDER WHITE TUTELAGE Chapter 5. The Coastal World Chapter 6. The Naskapi and their White Patrons Chapter 7. The Meaningfulness of the Two Worlds of the Naskapi Postscript: The Future of the Naskapi Appendix References Index List of Institute Publications

“Valuable as an example of the anthropology of development and modernization prevalent in northern Canada at the time, the book transcends this genre in the acuity of its ethnographic analysis and beautifully captures a moment – Henriksen began fieldwork in 1966 – when Mushuau Innu were making the transition to permanent communities… This book is important for Algonquian and circumpolar specialists, as well as for students wishing to understand dynamics of hunting societies in modernity. It has also become significant as a historical record both of the Innu people and of anthropology in northern Canada.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute