Basque Whalers & Southern Inuit: Worlds in Collision or Collaboration?
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- Basque/Inuit Archaeology in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence
Exploring Climate, Environment, and Cultural Interactions
William Fitzhugh
Director, Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center,
Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History
Dartmouth College Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology
During the 16-17th centuries, in the midst of the Little Ice Age, two pioneering peoples from opposite corners of the world reached the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence and found ways to collaborate in unusual ways. Basques provided European material culture in return for Inuit assistance whaling and codfishing. Both were eventually driven out-the Inuit to northern Labrador and the Basques succumbed to competition from other European whalers and fishermen. This seminar explores the climate, environment, and cultural factors leading to the rise and decline of the first Inuit-European joint venture in the New World.
Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
Recorded April 22, 2019
Great to see you Billy! Last time was at Howard Johnson's parking lot, Burlington, when I handed (The late, Great) Mike Maple a gym bag full of $100 bills and then held my breath for an hour and a half. Like you said, It was all about keeping your word. Sorry to hear about Steve, just this morning I read the obit. As ever, Freddy B.
"My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life." - Immanuel Veilkovsky, author of Worlds in Collision, 1950
It looks like that man doesn’t have real knowledge about the Basques. Which is weird for a university conference. He affirms several time that the Basques live in Northern Spain. The Basques also live in South West France. When Cesar invaded Gaul in ca 50 BC, he recognized that South of the Garonne river they weren’t Celtic tribes, but Aquitanians (proto Basques). Many whalers hunting around Labrador/New Foundland came from the North of the Pyrenees: Saint Jean de Luz-Ciboure, Biarritz….
Since 1539, France imposed the french lenguage on all its inhabitants, starting with the Villers-Cotterêts order. Due to this distintive basque identiy was erased from France year by year. So at that time basques were from Basque Country in Nothern Spain. French basques if any, were already french. Anyways most of the whaling expeditions departed from spanish ports, that is the reason that the only written accounts of that period and inudstry were found in a spanish archive by the researcher that this gentelman refers to in the video.
Note: The arrows of migration, I believe, are in the wrong rotation and direction. Yes, rotation and direction. I believe the origins of the ancient ancestors of Inupiat were not from Asia. Blood type and technology are my basis.
There were reported ''Blonde Eskimo'' people in northern Canada, specifically from Victoria Island. I wish to know if this was true. Maybe it was a small group of Vikings moving inland and mixing with some Inuit or Eskimo tribes?
The expert anwsered that same quesiton in the video. He said it is not true. There werent blonde skimos, its just a myth and DNA proves it.