Canis familiaris borealis
by Sue Hamilton
© December 2011, The
Fan Hitch, all rights reserved
revised: December 2020
revised: December 2020
A.
The Inuit Dog’s place in the natural world
B. The Inuit Dog is not a wolf!
C. Dangerous confusion
B. The Inuit Dog is not a wolf!
C. Dangerous confusion
A. The Name Controversy
B. Defining 'Purity'
C. Mistaken Identity: Promoting a breed vs. avoiding
extinction
D. The Belyaev Experiment
E. Summary
B. Defining 'Purity'
C. Mistaken Identity: Promoting a breed vs. avoiding
extinction
D. The Belyaev Experiment
E. Summary
A. Ancient
history
B. Recent history: The Inuit Dog in service to nations
B. Recent history: The Inuit Dog in service to nations
1. Exploration
2. War
3. Sovereignty
2. War
3. Sovereignty
C.
Population decline
A. In the North
B. Below the tree line
B. Below the tree line
A.
Inherited diseases
B. Disease prevention and access to veterinary services
B. Disease prevention and access to veterinary services
A.
Appearance
B. Behavior
C. Performance
D. The big picture
VII. The Inuit Dog in
Scientific Research, Films andB. Behavior
C. Performance
D. The big picture
in Print
VIII. Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: Partial list of scientific publications about
the Inuit Dog
Appendix 2: Selected (alphabetical) list of other resources
with a focus on Inuit Dogs
Appendix 3: A small sampling of other resources of
interest
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This site is dedicated to the Inuit Dog as well as related Inuit culture and traditions. It is also home to The Fan Hitch, Journal of the Inuit Sled Dog.
Illustration by Nunga Echalook
Appendix 2: Partial list of other
Media Resources with a focus on Inuit Dogs
(Some have been reviewed in The Fan Hitch Journal and PostScript.
Some may be available on the secondary market only.)
(Some have been reviewed in The Fan Hitch Journal and PostScript.
Some may be available on the secondary market only.)
BOOKS
Huskies/My
Friends, the HuskiesRobert Dovers, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1957
Snow Dogs
Neville Peat, Whitcoulls Publishers, 1978 ISBN 0 7233 0555 2
Oscar: The True Story of A Husky
Commander Nils Lied, John Kerr Pty Ltd, 1987, ISBN 0 9588161 1 5
Huskies: Polar Sledge Dogs
Jonathan Chester; Margaret Hamilton Books Pty, 1994, ISBN0 947241 63 9
Huskies in Harness
Shelagh Robinson; Kangaroo Press PTY, 1995; ISBN 086417 726 7
Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic
Kevin Walton and Rick Atkinson, Images Publishing, 1996, ISBN 1 897817 55 X
The Book That Wasn’t
Kevin Walton, Editor; 1996, The Knell Press
One Thousand Days with Sirius
Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen (2005, The Steading Workshop, ISBN 0-9950773-0-3)
The Doggy Men
Hwfa Jones, privately published, 2006
Dog Days on Ice: Antarctic Exploration in a Golden Era
Peter Noble, Reardon Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1 873877 89 7
Across the Top of the World
Sir Wally Herbert; 1 Nov. 1969, Prentice Hall Press, ISBN-13 : 978-0582108011
How to Raise a Dog Team
Adamie Inukpuk; 2009, Avataq Cultural Institute, ISBN 2-921644-77-0
Harnessed to the Pole: Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909
Sheila Nickerson; 2014, The University of Alaska Press; ISBN 978-60223-5
The Canadian Inuit Dog: Icon of Canada’s North
Kim Han; 2018, Revodana Publishing, ISBN 978-1-943824-42-7
Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs
Mary R. Tahan; 2019, Springer, ISBN-13: 978-3030026912
QIMMEQ – The Greenland Sled Dog
Carsten Egevang, Editor; 2020, A2 Alle Alle Publishing
From Equinox, Nov/Dec 1987; pgs
36/37
Photo by Mike Beedell
Photo by Mike Beedell
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Canada’s Own Eskimo Dog on the Brink of
ExtinctionWilliam J. Carpenter; February 1976, north nord , pgs 2-7.
The North No More
George W. Bauer; February 1976, north nord , pgs 30-36.
An Epic Arctic Journey (The recreation of the ‘Qitdlak’ expedition)
Bruce Wallace; May 11, 1987; Maclean’s
The Qitdlarssuaq Chronicles
Renee Wissink; November/December 1987, Equinox, pgs 36-55.
Top Dogs
John F. Ross; January 2004, Smithsonian, pgs 34-43.
The Inuit Sled Dog
Jonathan Hanson; Winter 2007, Overland Journal, pgs 98-99.
Screen shot from PBS Nature,
Dogs that Changed the World Part 1, Rise of the
Dog
FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES
Arctic
Dog TeamFrom In Celebration of Nunavut: Life on the Land Volume 5
National Film Board of Canada, 1949, 10 minutes
Tuktu and His Eskimo Dogs
National Film Board of Canada, 1966, 14 minutes
Qimmiq: Canada’s Arctic Dog
From In Celebration of Nunavut - Life in the Settlements - Volume 9
National Film Board of Canada, 1999, 25 minutes
The Last Husky: The final journey of Antarctica’s sledge dogs
Aurora Films (Australia), 1993, 34 minutes
Qimuksik (Dogteam)
From Nunavut (Our Land); Episode 1: Isuma.tv (Canada), 1995
Dog of the Midnight Sun
Summerhill Entertainment (Canada), 1999, 46 minutes
The Return of the Qimutsiit
Chinook Communications (Canada), 2006, 52 minutes
Dogs that Changed the World, Part 1, Rise of the Dog
Nature (Public Broadcasting), 53 minutes
Qimmiit: A Clash of Two Truths
Piksuk Media (Canada), 2010
The Quest (La quête de Philippe)
Piksuk Media (Canada), 2011
The Nunavut Quest: Race Across Baffin
Piksuk Media (Canada), 2012, six 22 minute episodes
Okpik’s Dream
Catbird Productions, 2014, 73 minutes
Qimmeerukkaluarpat: When the Dogs are Gone
Natural History Museum of Denmark as a part of QIMMEQ Project, 2019, 5 episodes 7.5 to 9 minutes each