<div><I>Sanaaq </I>is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the <I>qallunaat</I>, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi-nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are born, and violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. Here the spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the <I>qallunaat </I>and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change Sanaaq’s way of life.<BR> Due in part to the perseverance of French anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, <I>Sanaaq </I>was first published in syllabic Inuttitut in 1987. His French translation appeared in 2002. This English translation now brings this cornerstone of Inuit literature to Anglophone readers and scholars.</DIV>