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Nunavut Sivuniksavut Training Program
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Year
1 Fall | Year 2 Fall
| Year 2 Winter
COURSES: Year 1 Winter
Land Claims II | Inuit-Government
Relations | Contemporary
Issues II
Inuit History II
| English II | Inuktitut
II
INUIT-GOVERNMENT
RELATIONS
How did the Nunavut land claims agreement come about? What
did Inuit leaders have to do to achieve it? What obstacles
did they have to overcome? These and other questions are
addressed in this course on Inuit-Government Relations.
Students learn about the kind of settlement the federal
government originally wanted to make with Inuit, and how
Inuit leaders worked to achieve something quite different.
Along the way, students learn about the factors that influenced
government, including northern development, court decisions,
lobbying activities and public opinion. The course includes
presentations by Inuit leaders who were a part of that story.
Contemporary
Issues II>>>
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The class
of 2004-2005 spent a day on Parliament Hill with Peter Ittinuar,
who was Nunavut's Member of Parliament from 1979 till 1984.
The students met with the Speaker of the House of Commons,
observed Question Period, and learned first-hand what it
felt like to be the first Inuk to speak in the House of
Commons.
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