106 • REVIEWS KIUMAJUT (TALKING BACK): GAME MANAGE- MENT AND INUIT RIGHTS 1900 – 1970. By PETER
was the crucial question for the period addressed in Kiumajut. Are Inuit to be considered as Indians, their rights addressed in the Royal Proclamation of 1763? Or are they outside that proclamation, their lands having been under Hudson Bay Company rule at the time of the proclamation? Should Inuit b...
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| Summary: | was the crucial question for the period addressed in Kiumajut. Are Inuit to be considered as Indians, their rights addressed in the Royal Proclamation of 1763? Or are they outside that proclamation, their lands having been under Hudson Bay Company rule at the time of the proclamation? Should Inuit be subject to game laws? Should game laws be designed to support the age-old Inuit way of life, or to control Inuit and compel them to adopt modern ways? Kulchyski and Tester tackle these and related questions in an unabashed attempt to revise the history of Canadian governmental policy and practice in the Arctic. Rather than portraying a steady progression of improvements and rec-ognition culminating with the creation of Nunavut, they catalogue a seemingly endless series of missteps and misun-derstandings, together with a stream of opinion and invec- |
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