Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True

Joe Karetak, Frank Tester and Shirley Tagalik edited this academic volume, published by Fernwood Publishing, gathering Inuit elders, knowledge holders and scholars to document Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, the traditional Inuit knowledge system, including its spiritual and cosmological dimensions, largely in contributors' own words rather than through outside ethnographic paraphrase. Its strength is that it centers Inuit voices directly as authors and knowledge holders rather than as subjects described by outside researchers, giving the material a standing closer to a primary community record than a conventional academic study. Its limit is that Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit varies across different Inuit regions and communities, and this volume reflects the specific contributors and communities involved rather than one single universal Inuit account.