Akimiski Island, Nunavut, Canada: The Use of Cree Oral History and Sea-Level Retrodiction to Resolve Aboriginal Title

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Tsuji, Leonard J.S., General, Zachariah, Tsuji, Stephen R.J., Powell, Evelyn, Latychev, Konstantin, Clark, Jorie, Mitrovica, Jerry X.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2020
• Subjects: Aboriginal title; Akimiski Island; Cree oral history; Indigenous knowledge; post-glacial isostatic adjustment; sea-level change modelling; titre ancestral; île Akimiski; histoire orale crie; connaissances autochtones; compensation isostatique postglaciaire; modélisation du changement du niveau de la mer; Baie James; Canada; Nunavut; Akimiski island; Arctic; inuit; inuits; James Bay; Cris
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/71481

On 1 April 1999, Akimiski Island of the western James Bay region of northern Ontario, Canada, was includedin the newly formed territory of Nunavut, Canada—an Inuit-dominated territory—even though the Inuit had never asserted Aboriginal title to the island. By contrast, the Omushkegowuk Cree of the w...