Editing Farley Mowat (section)

== Post-war ==

In 1947, Mowat was hired as field technician for American [[naturalist]] [[Francis Harper (biologist)|Francis Harper]]'s study of the barren-ground caribou in the [[Nueltin Lake]] area—now [[Nunavut]]'s [[Kivalliq Region]],{{Sfn|Harper|1955}} resulting in the publication of Harper's book entitled ''Caribou of Keewatin.''<ref name="Harper">{{citation |title=Caribou of Keewatin |first=Francis |last=Harper |location=Kansas |institution=Museum of Natural Science via Gutenberg Press|editor-last=Hall |editor-first=E. Raymond |date=21 October 1955 |page=164 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33721/33721-h/33721-h.htm }}</ref> Two young Inuit were with them, fifteen-year-old Inuk Luke Anoteelik (Luke Anowtalik) and his sister Rita, who were the sole survivors of starvation in an Inuit village.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.portraitsofthenorth.com/portrait/lukeanowtalik.html |title=Luke Anowtalik |work=Portraits of the North |access-date=2 November 2014 |year=2002 |first=Gerald |last=Kuehl |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924080203/http://www.portraitsofthenorth.com/portrait/lukeanowtalik.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Luke Anowtalik went on to become well known for his distinctive carvings of antler and bone that are now in the permanent collection of the [[National Gallery of Canada]].<ref name="SpirtWrestlerGallery">{{citation |url=http://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?artists_id=386 |title=Luke Anowtalik, Inuit, Arviat, Nunavut Territory, Canada (1932–2006) |access-date=2 November 2014 |location=Vancouver, BC}}</ref><ref name="Hessel_1990">{{citation |title=Arviat Stone Sculpture: Born of the Struggle with an Uncompromising Medium |first=Ingo |last=Hessel |journal=Inuit Art Quarterly |date=Winter 1990 |pages=4–15}}</ref> Due to a [[clash of personalities]], Mowat undertook his own explorations. "Harper later extracted a promise that neither would mention the other in their respective future writing, a promise also extracted from Mowat by later field companions for their lifetimes."<ref name="CFN_2014" />

In the late 1940s, Mowat was hired by Frank Banfield—then Chief Mammalogist of the newly formed [[Canadian Wildlife Service]]—as field assistant in Banfield's ambitious multi-year investigation of the [[barren-ground caribou]],<ref name="Burnett_2002">{{cite book |title=A Passion for Wildlife: The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service |first=J. Alexander |last=Burnett |publisher=UBC Press |date=1 November 2002 |location=Vancouver, British Columbia |isbn=9780774842525 |chapter=Working with Mammals (1962–67) Building a National Wildlife Program |pages=96–128 }}</ref>
<ref name="Burnett_1999">{{citation |journal=The Canadian Field-Naturalist |volume= 113 |number=1 |date=January–March 1999 |title=A Passion for Wildlife: A History of the Canadian Wildlife Service, 1947–1997 |first=J. Alexander |last=Burnett |location=Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada |url=https://archive.org/stream/canadianfieldnat113otta/canadianfieldnat113otta_djvu.txt |page=183 }}</ref><ref name="Sandlos_2011">{{citation |publisher=University of British Columbia Press |location=Vancouver |first=John |last=Sandlos |title=Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories |date=1 November 2011 |page=360 }}</ref> which resulted in Banfield's influential 1951 publication entitled "The Barren-ground Caribou".<ref name="Banfield_1951">{{citation |last=Banfield |first=Frank|year= 1951a |title=The barren-ground caribou |institution=Canada Department of Resources and Development |location=Ottawa, Ontario |pages=56 + vi  }}</ref> Mowat, who was part of a four-researcher team, was fired by the chief of Canadian Wildlife Service because of complaints from the local population and lack of formal approval for some activities.<ref name="CFN_2014" />