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<text id=91TT2889>
<title>
Dec. 30, 1991: World Notes:Canada
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 30, 1991 The Search For Mary
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 31
World Notes
CANADA
This Land Is Our Land
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<p> They call themselves Inuit--"the people"--and they eke
out simple lives in tiny communities scattered across the frozen
tundra of the Northwest Territories. Last week, after 15 years
of negotiations with Ottawa, an agreement was announced under
which the Inuit will take political control of one-fifth of
Canada's land area.
</p>
<p> The accord, the largest native land-claim settlement ever,
will carve a new territory to be called Nunavut (Our Land) out
of the 770,000 sq. mi. that makes up the eastern two-thirds of
the Northwest Territories, where 17,500 Inuit live. The Inuit
will gain mineral rights on 14,000 sq. mi. but will give up
other subsurface claims in exchange for $1 billion.
</p>
<p> Louis Pilakapsi, head of the Tungavik Federation of
Nunavut, predicted that the pact "will result in a better social
and economic state for the Inuit people," But it must still
pass muster in the federal Parliament and plebiscites in both
the Northwest Territories and the future Nunavut. Dene Indians
in the western third of the Territories charge that the
settlement undermines their demand for total self-government and
control of oil and mineral wealth in their region.
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