I Nuligak an Inuvialuit history of first contact (2005)

It is easy to overlook Herschel Island a tiny speck of land just off the Yukon coast where the Inuvialuit hunter Nuligak once followed the great journeys of caribou polar bears and whales The island lays silently on the margins of geography entrapped in the footnotes of history a forgotten place frozen in time It was on Herschel Island that a young Inuvialuit boy Nuligak later named Bob Cockney by the missionaries came of agefascinated by Herschel but equally repelled by the excess of socalled civilization Through Nuligaks touching yet tragic lifestory expressed through his writings and echoed by his grandchildrens poignant return to the Islandwe are offered a unique view into an often troubling past and a potentially hopeful future