In White Lies about the Inuit, John Steckley attempts to dismantle many popular “lies” about the Inuit by examining their sources in both academia and in pop culture (Steckley, 2008). Why is he qualified to write this book? Steckley, who holds a PhD in education from the University of Toronto, is also the last known speaker of the Huron language (Goddard, 2010). He is clearly an eminent scholar who has spent his life studying indigenous people and their cultures in order to preserve them for the future.
However, White Lies about the Inuit is no dry textbook or dictionary. Even its title is playful and provocative, because it incorporates two important