ANTH 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: James Bay And Northern Quebec Agreement, Makivik Corporation, Rankin Inlet
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Housing and settlement 1966 o o o o o o. Committee for original people"s entitlement (1970) o o o o o o. Map on course link of canadian arctic with these organizations! (look up for exam multiple choice) Inuit took arctic and broke it up into regions (these 6 organizations e. g. baffin region inuit association. Have advantage: they speak one language in the arctic: inuktitut. Common theme between both videos: having to do with transitions talking about transitions. Yup"ik: when eskimo people in arctic belonged to one culture and over time split apart. A lot of controversy in terms of his election. He doesn"t speak inuktitut: when have elections, they usually always elected elders form the community. But most elders couldn"t speak english and couldn"t communicate to government. So as compromise, it was younger people elected to band counsels. Now most first nations councils have a council of elders that advises the younger council on what to do.