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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ftopenedition:oai:books.openedition.org:uop/1431 2023-05-15T14:57:00+02:00 Nunavut: A Challenge for the Inuit Remie, Cornelius H.W. 2017-09-27 http://books.openedition.org/uop/1431 en eng Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press http://books.openedition.org/uop/1431 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart chapter 2017 ftopenedition 2017-10-01T00:04:23Z 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. Book Part Arctic inuit inuktitut Northwest Territories Nunavut OpenEdition Arctic Nunavut Northwest Territories |
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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. |
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