Native American Issues: A Reference HandbookBloomsbury Academic, 01.10.1996 - 293 Seiten The first settlers of the North American continent formed a multitude of societies and enjoyed exclusive occupation of over seven million square miles of land. Today their descendants are relegated to lands totaling less than 50,000 square miles. Native American Issues focuses on the contemporary political issues surrounding the confinement of native peoples to limited lands in the United States and Canada. |
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... Inuit or Metis ; however , Alberta does recognize the Metis communities ( Champagne 1994b , li - lii ) . Early History By the time of contact more than 1 million Native peoples were settled in what is now Canada . Their ancestors had ...
... Inuit were simply ignored . However , the Supreme Court ruled in the 1939 case of Re Eskimos that the Inuits were covered by the provisions of the Indian Act . Although they had been bypassed by the treaty process , much of their land ...
... Inuit , it was fully expected that the government would be con- trolled by Native Canadians . Additionally , the settlement pro- vided that the Inuit peoples would receive a grant of $ 580 million ( Canadian ) to support the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chronology | 85 |
Biographical Sketches | 107 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Native America Today: A Guide to Community Politics and Culture Barry Pritzker Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |