Negotiating indigenous reconciliation: territorial rights and governance in Nunavut.(Commentaries: the world at large) From: Arena Journal | Date: March 22, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In April 1999 a new jurisdiction became the largest and least populous member of the Canadian federation. Nunavut, significantly meaning 'our land' in the language of the overwhelming Inuit majority, has only 27,000 people. These people live in small towns, villages, and hunting camps scattered around the treeless islands and coasts of Canada's Eastern Arctic. Larger than Quebec or Australia's Queensland, there are no roads joining Nunavut's communities, nor tying the region to the...