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NU • abbr. Nunavut (in official postal use).
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Nunavut online.(Online Law)
Magazine article from: LawNow; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...people and the Government of Canada, Nunavut was created. In a commemorative publication...wrote: "The technical translation of nunavut is simply "our land." The emotional, spiritual, deeper meaning of nunavut or nunavun is "our homeland." The...
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NUNAVUT: INUIT REGAIN CONTROL OF THEIR LANDS AND THEIR LIVES.(Review)
Magazine article from: Arctic; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...media reporting about the formation of Nunavut is over. Often encountering northern...international readers (and many Canadians) what Nunavut was, who the Inuit were, and what the...were also engaged by the celebration in Nunavut and in Canada that attended the creation...
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Nunavut, the unfulfilled dream: the arduous path towards socio-economic autonomy.(General Articles)(Nunavut Territory)(Report)
Magazine article from: Northern Review; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: On 1 April 2009, the Nunavut Territory celebrated its tenth anniversary...Born in 1999, the government of Nunavut was the result of more than twenty...Canada. One of the goals of the "Nunavut Project," first submitted for negotiations...
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Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and Their Lives.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Northern Review; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and...USS 16.00. ISBN 87-90730-34-8. Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and...creation of the new Canadian territory of Nunavut. In a brief introduction, the editors...
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Election of Nunavut's first Legislative Assembly.
Magazine article from: Canadian Parliamentary Review; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...confederation in 1949. The creation of Nunavut is a truly historic event in the evolution...made up of Inuit residents, which makes Nunavut the jurisdiction with the largest aboriginal...payable to the Inuit over 14 years. The Nunavut Act was passed in Parliament that same...
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Engineering public service excellence for Nunavut: the Nunavut Unified Human Resources Development strategy.
Magazine article from: Arctic; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...will change. A new jurisdiction, called Nunavut, will be carved out of the existing Northwest...land claims is an enormous achievement. Nunavut, which means "Our Land" in Inuktitut...region, about 85% of whom are Inuit. Nunavut will have a public form of government...
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Change in progress: Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the language of Inuit. Canada's newest territory, where 85% of the people are Inuit, is one-fifth of the country's land area--equal to Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon combined. It is an example of self-government by Indigenous people, where traditional lore is meeting the modern world. (Indigenous People--Nunavut).
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder; 5/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...frosty northern night in April 1999, Nunavut was born. For the Native activists who...true. For the 27,000 people who call Nunavut home, it was a new beginning. Inuit...earlier inhabitants have occupied parts of Nunavut for 5,000 years. Written records of...
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Our land: our laws. Court in Nunavut.
Magazine article from: LawNow; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; The recently created Nunavut court system is unique and arose out of the creation of the new territory of Nunavut. History As a result of decades of negotiations...government and the Inuit people of the Nunavut region of the former Northwest Territories...
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Nunavut.(Rapports législatifs)
Magazine article from: Revue parlementaire canadienne; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...troisime session de la deuxime lgislature du Nunavut a t convoque le 21 fvrier dernier. Le...du budget principal du gouvernement du Nunavut pour 2006-2007 et des plans d'activits...Au cours de la matine du 27 fvrier, le Nunavut Leadership Forum, organe informel regroupant...
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A Place of Their Own.(Nunavut)
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder; 3/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...with a new territory, the people of Nunavut are looking toward a future with more...Editor of Canadian Geographic, says Nunavut is an ambitious act of self-definition...their culture. Now, as of 1 April 1999, Nunavut residents will be in charge of education...
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Nunavut
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces
Nunavut 1 Location and Size 2 Topography 3 Climate...symbolizes the stone monuments used throughout Nunavut as landmarks. In the upper right is a...AM MST = noon GMT. 1 Location and Size Nunavut was formerly a part of the Northwest Territories...
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Northwest Territories
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat. 60°N, and E of Yukon...divided and the eastern portion became Nunavut , the region occupied more than one third...portion of the Northwest Territories, now Nunavut. Sir Martin Frobisher was the first in...
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Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...Territory, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut Territory. These lands are all located...Inuvialuit and the Métis. The Nunavut Territory (pop. 27,700 as of 2000...from native tribes;the largest of these Nunavut tribes is the Inuit (83 percent), formerly...
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The Northwest Territories
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces
...Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Yukon, and Nunavut, and most of Manitoba, Ontario, and...eastern part becoming the new territory of Nunavut. The western part kept the name "Northwest...Beaufort Sea, and polar ice; on the east by Nunavut; on the south by Saskatchewan, Alberta...
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Frobisher Bay
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...240 km) long and from 20 to 40 mi (32-64 km) wide, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Cutting deeply into SE Baffin Island...tongues into the bay. At its head is Iqaluit , the capital of Nunavut. The bay was explored (1576) by Sir Martin Frobisher ; until...
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