Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North
Alternate Title
Arctic Visions
E-Books
Author/Creator
Oran R. Young
Historical note:
Adamson discusses the importance of Aboriginal broadcasting to not only Aboriginal but non-Aboriginal Canadians as an educational and cross-cultural understanding tool; language and educational issues; and job training in broadcasting. Billy Day comments on trapping in Inuvik; the impact of the animal rights movement on the trapping economy; land claims and conservation; relations with the RCMP; as well as education and the impact of residential schooling in the North on Aboriginal languages. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised.
Gallant discusses the Aboriginal right to hunt and fish as it applies to off-reserve people and states that the Ro