Download or read book INUIT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES written by Northwest Territories. Department of Information and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Territorial Rights of the Inuit of the Canadian Northwest Territories written by Geoffrey Standish Lester and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the issue of aboriginal landclaims by the Inuit of the NWT.
Download or read book Images of Justice written by Dorothy Eber and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yellow knife courthouse displays a collection of fourteen Inuit carvings representing landmark cases the legal history of the Northwest Territories. The cases, which came to trial before the NWT Supreme Court between 1955 and 1970, and the carvings that represent them illuminate a pivotal period of overwhelming social change when the Inuit camp system was eroding and age-old practices and traditional mores were being called into question. Dorothy Harley Eber tells the stories behind the carvings and provides fascinating insight into the unusual situations and special problems that developed as the Inuit came contact with Canada's justice system. The collection of carvings was started when J.H. Sissons, first resident justice of the NWT Supreme Court, received a carving of himself on the bench from an Inuit defendant. He decided to have Inuit artists document more cases and collected carvings that represented important decisions involving murder, assisted suicide, adoption, custom law marriage, and infractions of game laws. The collection was added to by his successor, William Morrow. Both Sissons and Morrow believed that to serve justice the North the law and the courts must adapt, and they were instrumental in spurring the fight for Native rights and making changes to the law to secure them. Eber provides colourful portraits of the two men based on recollections of those who travelled on circuit with them and observed their battles with Ottawa bureaucrats and the higher courts. Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases -- Inuit and whites, defendants, judges, and prosecutors. Eber brings herstory up to date with a look at the courts today and presents views of Inuit and non-Inuit with regard to future directions. She also provides valuable information on the remarkable but little-known artists who created the unique works of art the Yellowknife Courthouse Collection of Inuit Sculpture. At a time when alternative legal systems for Native peoples are being debated, Images of Justice provides a lively, accessible account of the northern courts, their evolution, and their future a changing northern society.
Download or read book Inuit of the Northwest Territories written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief account of the prehistory, social organization, and current conditions of the Eskimos of the NWT. Brochure originally part of: Inuit traditional life series: Northwest Territories.
Download or read book The Road to Nunavut written by Ronald Quinn Duffy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the transformation of the Inuit of the eastern Canadian arctic from a hunting and trapping society to a sedentary population tied to the economy of southern Canada and striving for self-government.
Download or read book Images of Canadianness written by Leen D'Haenens and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and Quebec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Quebec; the Belgian and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self-government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate their position in society; the Canada-US relationship; Canada's trade with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the information highway.
Download or read book Canada s Colonies written by Ken S. Coates and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Introduction: Approaching the North 1. The Land, Original Peoples and First Contacts 2. The Early Fur Trade 3. The Gold Frontier and the Klondike 4. The Doldrums in the Middle North 5. Boom and Bust in the Arctic 6. The Army's North 7. The Bureaucrats' North 8. Whither the North Further Reading Index
Download or read book Canada s Changing North written by William C. Wonders and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Canada's Changing North was first published in 1971, it quickly became a popular and reliable overview of the geography and culture of the Canadian North. In the three decades since it first appeared, great changes have occurred in this huge region that makes up two thirds of Canada's total area. This revised and expanded edition provides a new generation with a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the Canadian North and outlines how this region has become increasingly integrated into both the Canadian national fabric and the world.Among the many recent developments explored in Canada's Changing North is the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic power. It also examines how economic development, which has long focused on non-renewable natural resources, particularly minerals, has grown to an enormous scale. Development of arctic oil and gas, which hinges on world supplies and national and international politics, has meant major changes across the North. Some of the new national parks in the Canadian North are already under threat from mineral development. Northern tourism has made it possible for a wide variety of affluent visitors to visit hitherto remote areas, affecting the ecology. The final selection, on northern challenges, discusses critical issues such as the impact of climatic change, the social needs (e.g. housing, education) of a rapidly increasing aboriginal population, environmental protection of unique regions, and defence of Arctic sovereignty. Of the sixty-two readings in this edition, forty-one are new.
Download or read book Native People Native Lands written by Bruce Alden Cox and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns. The contributors draw on original research to discuss Megaprojects in the North, the changing role of native women, reserves and devices for assimilation, the rebirth of the Canadian Metis, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, the role of slave-raiding, and epidemics and firearms in native history.
Download or read book Inuit Territorial Rights in the Canadian Northwest Territories written by Geoffrey Standish Lester and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the traditional view of aboriginal rights of the Eskimo of the Northwest Territories.
Download or read book Aboriginal Land Rights written by Geoffrey S. Lester and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inuit written by Erinn Banting and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1,000 years ago, Inuit ancestors called the Thule arrived in Canada's Far North. They settled in parts of Canada now known as Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and northern Quebec. Learn more in Inuit, one of the titles in the Canadian Aboriginal Art and Culture series.
Download or read book Inuit Women written by Janet Mancini Billson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inuit Women is the definitive study of the Inuit during a time of rapid change. Based on fourteen years of research and fieldwork, this analysis focuses on the challenges facing Inuit women as they enter the twenty-first century. Written shortly after the creation of Nunavut, a new province carved out of traditional Inuit homelands in the Canadian North, this compelling book combines conclusions drawn from the authors' ethnographic research with the stories of Inuit women and men, told in their own words. In addition to their presentation of the personal portraits and voices of many Inuit respondents, Janet Mancini Billson and Kyra Mancini explore global issues: the impact of rapid social change and Canadian resettlement policy on Inuit culture; women's roles in society; and gender relations in Baffin Island, in the Eastern Arctic. They also include an extensive section on how the newly created territory of Nunavut is impacting the lives of Inuit women and their families. Working from a research approach grounded in feminist theory, the authors involve their Inuit interviewees as full participants in the process. This book stands alone in its attention to Inuit women's issues and lives and should be read by everyone interested in gender relations, development, modernization, globalization, and Inuit culture.
Download or read book Inuit of the Arctic written by Tamra B. Orr and published by Curious Fox Books. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although not considered an "Indian Tribe," the Inuit are a group of culturally similar Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Alaska. Inuit of the Arctic is a narrative non-fiction. Learn about what life was like among the Inuit long ago, before the influx of European immigrants, how they hunted, what they ate, what they wore, how children were raised, and how they withstood the cold. It also features the history of the Inuit of the Arctic, explanations of the wars and treaties that affected them, how they survived through cooperation, tattoos, the Inuit language, the Arctic Winter Games, and their beliefs in medicine men, gods, luck, and superstitions. Also included are historical and contemporary photos and drawings of the tribe and parts of its culture, maps, fascinating facts, chapter notes, suggested reading, and a glossary. Find out what early life was like for the Inuit of the Arctic and how it framed the present.
Download or read book Tammarniit Mistakes written by Frank Tester and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of the roles of relief and relocation in response to welfare and other perceived problems and the federal government's overall goal of assimilating the Inuit into the dominant Canadian culture, this book questions the seeming benevolence of the post-Second World War Canadian welfare state. The authors have made extensive use of archival documents, many of which have not been available to researchers before. The early chapters cover the first wave of government expansion in the north, the policy debate that resulted in the decision to relocate Inuit, and the actual movement of people and materials. The second half of the book focuses on conditions following relocation and addresses the second wave of state expansion in the late fifties and the emergence of a new dynamic of intervention.
Download or read book A History of the Original Peoples of Northern Canada written by Keith J. Crowe and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifteen years, Keith Crowe's A History of the Original Peoples of Northern Canada has informed a multitude of residents in and visitors to the Canadian North and has served as a standard text. Now, in a new epilogue, Crowe describes and analyses the changes in the North which have come about since the book's first publication. The success of this book over the years is due in large part to Crowe's approach. While the majority of works on Canadian history are essentially European in perspective, Crowe has endeavoured to interpret the history of the original peoples of northern Canada from a native standpoint. He has attempted to provide a work that native Canadians can use to learn the broad outlines of their cultural and historical development as well as details about their people, places, and events, while giving non-native people a more accurate version of northern Canadian history and ethnology. Crowe begins with the emergence, in prehistoric times, of the three great groups of hunting people -- the Algonkian, Athapaskan, and Inuit -- describing their contribution to the cultural heritage of native peoples today. He devotes particular attention to the various native tribes and some of their outstanding leaders; to the fur trade, its effects, and the emergence of the Métis people; to the devastating consequences of trading and whaling for the Arctic and the Inuit who lived there; to the Yukon Indians and the Gold Rush; to the coming of Christianity; and to the impact of governmental and economic encroachment on the North and the native peoples' response to this -- moving into the boardroom and elected office. In his new epilogue, Crowe surveys the major land claims since 1974 -- some settled, most still under negotiation, and some, like the James Bay hydro-electric project, being challenged. Crowe also explains the complexities of the land-claims process and points out the irony inherent in native peoples having to help create numerous "foreign" laws and institutions in order to protect an essentially simple way of life. He describes the native peoples' movement into and up the ranks of government at all levels and emphasizes the important role played by regional and national native associations, such as the Assembly of First Nations. He outlines the changes and developments in education in the North and provides a detailed assessment of the still very difficult economic situation, stressing the native peoples' concern that economic development in the North not be divorced from environmental considerations. Keith J. Crowe, who served for many years in the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, is now retired but remains privately active in northern and native issues.
Download or read book Native People Native Lands written by Bruce Cox and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987-10-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.
