People of the Deer (published in 1952, revised in 1975) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's first novel, which brought him literary recognition.

The novel is based upon a series of travels the author undertook in the Barrens region, west of Hudson Bay, out of which the most important one was in the winter of '47-'48. During this period he studied the lives of a small population of Inuit people, whose existence heavily relied on the very large population of caribou that lived there.

Besides fascinating descriptions of nature and life in the Arctic, Mowat's book tells us a sad story of how this fascinating population, once prosperous and wide spread, has slowly degraded to the brink of extinction due to unscrupulous economic interest and lack of understanding. Farley McGill Mowat OC, BA, D.Litt (born May 12, 1921 in Belleville, Ontario) is a conservationist and one of Canadas most widely-read authors. ... Hudson Bay, Canada. ... For other uses, see Inuit (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...