Lecture 10:
Northern Development and Aboriginal Land Claims: From Berger to Nunavut

 

Lecture Outline

PowerPoint Slides

 

Weekly Readings:

Morrison, “Search for a Future,” in True North, 168-188.

Michael I. Asch, “Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Reappraisal of the Recommendations of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission,” and Frances Abele, “Canadian Contradictions : Forty Years of Northern Political Development,” in Coates and Morrison, Interpreting, 299-332.

Film: Nunavut: Changing the Map of Canada, National Film Board, 25 mins.

Final papers due

 

Further Reading on Nunavut and Denendeh

Abel, Kerry, Drum Songs. Glimpses of Dene History (1993)

Alia, Valerie, Names, Numbers and Northern Policy (1994)

Anon., Denendeh. A Dene Celebration (1984)

Asch, Michael, Home and Native Land. Aboriginal Rights in the Canadian Constitution (1984)

Berger, T. Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland (1977)

Dacks, G., ed. Devolition and Constitutional Development in the Canadian North (1990)

Dene Nation, Denendeh (1984)

Dickerson, M., Whose North? Political Change, Political Development and Self-Government in the Northwest Territories (1992)

Duffy, R. Quinn, The Road to Nunavut.  The Progress of the Eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War (1987)

Fumoleau, René, As Long As this Land Shall Last (1975)

Gualtieri, Antonio R., Christianity and Native Traditions.  Indigenization and Syncretism among the Inuit and Dene of the Western Arctic (1984)

Hamilton, John David, Arctic Revolution. Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994 (1994)

Helm, June and Eleanor Leacock, "The Hunting Tribes of Subarctic Canada in North American Indians in Historical Perspective, eds. E.B. Leacock and Nancy Lurie (1971), pp. 343-374

Jull, Peter. "Building Nunavut: A Story of Inuit Self-Government", The Northern Review, (1988): 59-72

Matthiason, J.S., Living on the Land.  Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island (1992)

McCullum, Hugh and Karmel, This Land is Not for Sale (1975) and Moratorium (1977)

Merritt, J., et al,  Nunavut.  Political Choices and Manifest Destiny (1989)

Page, R., Northern Development.  The Canadian Dilemma (1986)

Purich, D., The Inuit and Their Land. The Story of Nunavut (1992)

O'Malley, Martin, The Past and Future Land (1976)

Slobodin, R., Metis of the Mackenzie District

Vallee, F.G., Kabloona in the Central Keewatin (1967)

Watkins, Mel., ed., Dene Nation: The Colony Within (1977)

Whittington, Michael S., ed. The North (1985)

 

Further Reading on Nunavik (northern Quebec) and Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador)

Scott, Colin, ed. Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador (2001)