Nunavut: A Challenge for the Inuit

I INTRODUCTION In this chapter some of the major transitions currently taking place in Canada’s Northwest Territories will be explored. In 1999 the eastern part of the NWT will become a separate territory named Nunavut, which in the Inuit language (inuktitut) means “Our Land”. The decision to create...

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Main Author: Remie, Cornelius H.W.
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2017
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Online Access:http://books.openedition.org/uop/1431
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Summary:I INTRODUCTION In this chapter some of the major transitions currently taking place in Canada’s Northwest Territories will be explored. In 1999 the eastern part of the NWT will become a separate territory named Nunavut, which in the Inuit language (inuktitut) means “Our Land”. The decision to create this territory was made in 1993 when representatives of the Inuit of the Central and Eastern Canadian Arctic and the federal government in Ottawa reached a final agreement on a landclaim a.