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The Uranium Controversy in Baker Lake
Baker Lake is a small and mostly Inuit community. The only inland community in Nunavut, it is located west of Hudson Bay, near the geographic centre of Canada. Its Inuktitut name is Qamani’tuaq (“where the river widens”). Baker Lake is in what is referred to today as the Kivalliq region, but was formerly called the Keewatin. Next to the local high school, there is a sign boasting that Baker Lake is the “Mining Capital of the Keewatin.” Indeed, Baker Lake is home to Nunavut’s only currently operating mine, the Meadowbank gold mine owned by Agnico-Eagle Mines.
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Mending the Past
Inuit must deal with our own healing however we can. We are reclaiming our culture, heritage and language through Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or Inuit Traditional Knowledge. As communities we must build bridges and open doors to healthy lifestyles. We must encourage, in the strongest way possible, our leaders — politicians, professionals and clergy — to model strong, healthy, respectful lifestyles. But we cannot do this unless we first of all acknowledge and make sense of our past
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Inuit Country
This year ’s “Indian Country” theme issue of Canadian Dimension deals with a specific group of indigenous people in Canada, the Inuit.
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Indigenous People: A Key to Environmental Rescue
Indigenous Peoples play a key role in having a vision for the economic paradigm of the future that will allow us, as human beings, to understand our role in the sacred circle of life.
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No Running Water
116 First Nations across Canada – almost one in five – have running water that is not drinkable because of contamination. It’s a horrendous situation putting residents at increased risk for a host of health problems usually associated with the world’s poorest countries.
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Resistance to Pipelines Heats Up in Northern BC
The explosion of oil production in the Alberta tar sands has created a new push to build pipelines throughout North America. In northern British Columbia, most of which is unceded indigenous land, there are overlapping proposals for new ports and pipelines to transport tar sands oil.
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Are Aboriginal women and women of colour benchwarmers?
Years ago Mohawk woman Kahentinetha Horn was to be a secondary speaker to a keynote named AngryArab. Little did organizers know that Horn does not believe in being second to anyone, she stole the show.
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“If You Want to Change Violence in the ‘Hood, You Have to Change the ‘Hood”
In the summer of 2009, at a funeral in Winnipeg’s North End following a gang-related drive-by shooting, two of us were approached by members of a North End street gang. They wanted to talk. Too often the voices of the people who have intimate knowledge of, and are integral to, the problems in Winnipeg’s inner city are not heard. Our report endeavours to give a voice to these six Aboriginal men.
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Turning the Page on Colonial Oppression
Since the mainstream Indigenous political organizations have to varying degrees been institutionalized and have a muted role in the actual struggles taking place, it’s thought that a different kind of organization is needed, one that comes from the dissident communities, the communities engaged in direct, non-violent opposition to the state.
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Quebec Native Women Statement to UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Without the reinforcement of Indigenous women’s role in nation building, there is no assurance that our traditional customs, languages and forms of governance will be perpetuated. Consequently, our identity as Indigenous peoples could be reduced to artifacts in museums. Therefore it is imperative that all states practice in good faith, the process of free, prior and informed consent.
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