Editing Reindeer (section)

=== Mythology and art ===
Among the Inuit, there is a story of the origin of the caribou:<ref name="CanadasArctic2002a">{{citation|year=2002|url=http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/Traditional/traditional/animals/caribou.htm|title=Tuktu — Caribou|location=Guelph, Ontario|work=Canada's Arctic|access-date=17 January 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173415/http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/Traditional/traditional/animals/caribou.htm|archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref>
{{blockquote|Once upon a time there were no caribou on the earth. But there was a man who wished for caribou, and he cut a hole deep in the ground, and up this hole came caribou, many caribou. The caribou came pouring out, until the earth was almost covered with them. And when the man thought there were caribou enough for mankind, he closed up the hole again. Thus the caribou came up on earth.|<ref name="CanadasArctic2002a" />}}

Inuit artists from the Barrenlands<!-- -which include the Ahiarmiut/Ihalmiut—originally from the north of the Back River area and from Ennadai Lake; the Akilinirmiut, originally from the Akiliniq Hills, the Thelon River area of Beverly Lake, Dubawnt Lake and Aberdeen Lake; the Hanningajurmiut, originally from Garry Lake; the Harvaqtuurmiut, originally from the Kazan River area; the Hauniqturmiut, originally from Whale Cove's southern region, between Sandy Point and Arviat; the Iluilirmiut/Illuilirmiut, originally from Adelaide Peninsula (Iluilik) and the Chantrey Inlet area; the Kihlirnirmiut, originally from the Garry Lake area between Bathurst Inlet, Cambridge Bay; the Natsilingmiut, originally from the Baker Lake area between Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak, Kugaaruk and Repulse Bay; the Padlermiut, originally from the Baker Lake to Arviat area; the Qaernermiut, originally from the lower Thelon River, Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet and Corbett Inlet areas, between Rankin Inlet and Whale Cove and the Utkuhiksalingmiut, originally from the Back River and Gjoa Haven/Wager Bay area- --> incorporate depictions of caribou — and items made from caribou antlers and skin — in carvings, drawings, prints and sculpture.

Contemporary Canadian artist [[Brian Jungen]], of [[Dane-zaa]] First Nations ancestry, commissioned an installation entitled "The ghosts on top of my head" (2010–11) in [[Banff, Alberta]], which depicts the antlers of caribou, elk and moose.<ref name="Hornsby2011">{{cite web|title=The ghosts on top of my head: Iconic sculpture creates campus focal point|last=Hornsby|first=Debra|date=25 August 2011|location=Banff, Alberta|access-date=31 January 2014|url=http://www.banffcentre.org/blog/2011/08/25/the-ghosts-on-top-of-my-head-iconic-sculpture-creates-campus-focal-point/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202204906/http://www.banffcentre.org/blog/2011/08/25/the-ghosts-on-top-of-my-head-iconic-sculpture-creates-campus-focal-point/|archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref>
{{blockquote|I remember a story my Uncle Jack told me – a Dunne-Za creation story about how animals once ruled the earth and were ten times their size and that got me thinking about scale and using the idea of the antler, which is a thing that everyone is scared of, and making it into something more approachable and abstract.|Brian Jungen, 2011<ref name="Hornsby2011" />}}

[[Tomson Highway]], [[Order of Canada|CM]]<ref name=canenc>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010891 Tomson Highway] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607115857/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010891 |date=7 June 2011}}. [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]].</ref> is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] and [[Cree]] [[playwright]], [[novelist]], and [[Children's literature|children's author]], who was born in a remote area north of [[Brochet, Manitoba|Brochet]], [[Manitoba]].<ref name=canenc /> His father, Joe Highway, was a caribou hunter. His 2001 children's book entitled ''Caribou Song''/''atíhko níkamon'' was selected as one of the "Top 10 Children's Books" by the Canadian newspaper ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''. The young protagonists of ''Caribou Song'', like Tomson himself, followed the caribou herd with their families.