ABSTRACT
The landscape is organized in ways that reveal relations among human beings, animals, and land. The south side of the river, for example, is extensively modified in ways that distinguish it from the north side. Inuksuit [upright stone markers in symbolic human form] account for half the number of features on the north side, whereas they account for only 15% of features on the south side (Stewart et al. 2000). Many of these inuksuit occur in lines that clearly were meant to influence the movements of caribou moving along the north side of the river. Not only is the north side the least culturally modified of the two sides of the river, its feature assemblage is dominated by stones that have a "natural" function—one of communicating directions to animals. The river divides the country into realms of greater and lesser human involvement in the landscape. A similar opposition between areas of greater and lesser activity is repeated in a number of other ways in the landscape.
