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Possible sources[edit]

@Joe Roe: I'm pinging since you expressed interest in potentially helping me improve this article. If you're no longer interested, let me know and I won't bother you. Even if you aren't, it's useful to create a list of possible sources to sift through. Sorry it took awhile to actually get around to this, I had work and was doing other nessecary things so I only had access to my phone for awhile, which is not ideal for this sort of thing. Now that I'm actually able to type on a computer, this is a lot easier. Anyways, here's the list of possible sources so far:

[1] Available on Érudit. I think this JSTOR article is the same source? [2].
Beyond the first page I saw in a preview of Names, numbers & northern policy: Inuit, Project Surname & the politics of identity in Artic. As far as I can tell, I don't have a way of actually accessing this source.
Pretty much this entire book by Valerie Alia: Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland
There's a Google Scholar result entitled Naming in Inuit Communities: The Attack on Tradition with the Goal of Assimilation by Jenna Stewart. But I'm extremely hesistant to use a student's work, so it'd likely be a good idea to use other sources. I'd be interested in your opinion on this source nonetheless. It was an interesting read, at the very least.
p. 132 (maybe other pages) of Images of Canadianness, a book published in 1998. There's an open access pdf available through Google Scholar. It's very brief content on this page specifically, but it mentions the government not issuing birth certificates correctly.
Historical Dictionary of the Inuit by Pamela Stern. I have to look into this more, but my brief glance gave me the impression that it might be useful for a chronological timeline of events/defining certain words that would be useful as context.

This list is obviously incomplete. But it's better than nothing. I'll keep working on this and on the article over time. Clovermoss (talk) 22:06, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]