With the rapid extension of modern commercial, industrial, and governmental systems into Canada's northern territories during the past 3 decades, a debate has grown over whether this development has been economically beneficial for the aboriginal people living there.1 Although a portion of this debate has been completely unstructured, the existence of technologically advanced extractive, processing, service, and administrative activities alongside the traditional hunting, fishing, and trapping economy has resulted in frequent reference to the dual economy paradigm as a framework within which to advance an argument.2 Unfortunately, lack of empirical data on activity patterns by ethnicity has been a perpetual problem. Analyses based on factual information have been, therefore, either restricted to a limited number of variables when based on census or Indian and Northern Affairs data