My bit on Inuit naming was forwarded by someone to Valerie Alia. My comments were based upon her book but I probably used considerable "poetic" licence and creative memory. I reviewed her book some time ago for the Canadian Journal of Native Studies. If anyone is interested in her work the details of it are given in the paragraph below reproduced with her permission. Dear Ken Hanly, Your piece on names was forwarded to me by a colleague. I'm especially interested in your comments, because I have been working on this subject since the early 1980s, and have published several articles and a book on it. Also, I did a 2-part documentary for CBC "Ideas" last year, which you may have missed, "Nunavut: Where Names Never Die." It's been rebroadcast once, and will probably be rebroadcast again one of these days (especially if people request it). The transcript is available from CBC. If you're interested in the book: Valerie Alia, NAMES, NUMBERS AND NORTHERN POLICY: INUIT, PROJECT SURNAME, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY, Halifax: Fernwood, 1994. I also did a short critique of some errors in work on the disk numbers, in an article last year for Canadian Woman STudies journal (special issue on Women of the North). Valerie Alia Distinguished PRofessor of Canadian Culture Center for Canadian-American Studies Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9110 USA phone: 360-650-7509 fax: 360-650-3995 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore the Henson puppet names that appear with this message...our cutesy internal thing...) Cheers, Ken Hanly