HIST 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Inuksuk, Charlottetown Accord, Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
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Constitutional odyssey timeline & main factors in slides. Look at act or pact (in first lecture maybe?) Ppl also didn"t like that it was a bunch of white men behind closed doors. In post-war period, north took on a new significance b/c of the cold war, on the other side was the soviet union. Human rights concerns families hunting together if not successful they"d starve to death. Way of life and economy so tied tgthr that if you take that away, whole way of life shattered. Inuit story = a bit different, happening in a more compressed time period. Canadians start appropriating (inukshuk) idea of the north. Arts cooperative develops to give new them new livelihood, some stuff sells the stuff that sells fits the southerners" stereotypes of them basically. After the white paper controversy, indigenous ppl come together and can talk politics on a national scale for the first time in the 70s.
