New Owners in Their Own Land: Minerals and Inuit Land Claims (Northern Lights, 3) (Volume 3) - Softcover

McPherson, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552381552 ISBN 13: 9781552381557

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2005

Synopsis

New Owners in their Own Land : Minerals and Inuit Land Claims is a well-researched treatment of the institutional, political, and personal conflicts that guided the process of Nunavut land claim negotiations. McPherson carefully considers the connection between resource development stemming from the days of oil and gas exploration in the Arctic in the 1960s and the Inuit's ensuing battle for self-determination. He outlines the federal government's "business-as-usual" tactic in pushing exploration further north onto Inuit territory and sheds light on exactly how the precedent-settling agreement was achieved whereby the Inuit managed to become owners of the mineral claims on their own land. New Owners in Their Own : Minerals and Inuit Land Claims Land discusses the prolonged, historical dispute over the land selection process with respect to subsurface rights within Nunavut using existing research, interviews, and personal diaries. The author's personal account of his involvement as a mineral consultant for the Inuit negotiators provides a rare and unique perspective on Inuit self-determination and exploration history in the North.

About this title

About the Author

Robert McPherson is a research associate with the Arctic Institute of North America.

Review

“... an important and original contribution to the literature on Northern development, political and economic.” -- Graham White, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1552381552
• ISBN 13: 9781552381557
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 329