Nunatsiavut

Rigolet is home to roughly 300 people of the Nunatsiavut Innu people that have been living there for 5,000 years. They are located off of a small inlet called the Hamilton Inlet which is an extension off of Lake Melville. The people of Rigolet are fighting hard to have the Muskrat falls project done right as it is their way of life and wellbeing at stake if it is improperly done and rushed. The Inuit people that live in the community are people without a lot of money, they live off the land and water, and the lakes are a primary source of food for them. The methylmercury can completely destroy their way of life, as they would no longer have food…

approximately 59,000 live within Canada, with the rest of the population living in Alaska, Greenland, and Russia (2). In Canada the Inuit live in four regions, one of these being Nunatsiavut; a recent self-governed region approved in 2005 under the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement (7). Nunatsiavut is located in Newfoundland and Labrador making up approximately 2,325 Inuit out of the 6,265 in Newfoundland (7). The 72,520 square kilometres of land Nunatsiavut is comprised of contains a…

that stretch 12,000 miles from parts of Siberia, Alaskan coast, Canada, and Greenland. Moreover, the Inuit are one of the most widely dispersed people in the world, but number only about 60,000 in population. Between 25,000 and 35,000 are in Alaska, with other smaller groups in Canada, Greenland, and Siberia. Likewise, the main territory of the Haida tribe is the archipelago if the northern British Columbia. In addition, the region in which they lived dictated the lifestyle and culture of the…

country. The Charter speaks on many things, such as a guarantee for freedoms, fundamental freedoms, democratic rights, enforcement, many other types of rights, official Canadian languages, and general separate topics. I put this on the centerline of the Union Jack, as it is quite important to me and to the everyday citizen, even to many immigrant that may have come due to the abilities this Charter gives us. Finally, I chose the Inukshuk, which is a simple to recognize Canadian figure for the…

contact with a group of Inuit. Due to their isolation, this is one of the first contacts the Inuit had made with outsiders. Of course, as word of the Northwest Passage spread, a large number of explorers and whalers made their way north. By 1840, many whalers made it as far northwest as Pond Inlet and Cumberland Sound. (refer to figure 1) The Inuit are an indigenous group, native to the Arctic regions of the world, including Greenland, Siberia, Alaska, and Northern Canada. Approximately 12,000…

and Canada had built businesses and in places like Alaska with the discovery of oil built factories and provided many jobs to the Inuit’s. (http://ultima0thule.blogspot.com/) In the early 1900’s the land most Inuit’s called home was a territory governed by Canada called the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 the Canadian government through a lands claim agreement gave the Inuit people a large part of the northwest territories to self-govern as part of Canada as a new territory called…