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...Barbara McDougall, Secretary of State for External Affairs, concerns the claims and rights of Canada's 1.5 million indigenous people. They have made important gains in recent years, including the agreement a year ago to transfer 772,000 sq. mi. from the Northwest Territories to 17,500 native Inuit (Eskimo) people in the self-governing region of Nunavut. The latest rejection of constitutional reform cost indigenous people recognition of the "inherent right to self-government" that would have been theirs under the deal. Nonetheless, McDougall noted, they retain rights to land and autonomy under laws and treaties that go back...
...SPARSELY SETtled Northwest Territories made it to the polls last week and narrowly approved a plan to split the vast region in two. Once a chain of legal steps is completed, the new 772,000-sq.-mi. territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
Counter brought the two men, the 80-year-old Amer-Eskimo sons of Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson, back to the U.S. for a "North Pole Reunion." Their 11-day visit received international attention and was marked by a tribute from President Reagan and an honorary banquet at Harvard...
...time of the Medgar Evers episode, manyconsidered Counter to be a leader in theAfrican-American community. He had already beenfeatured in the Dewar's ad, and his new book andfilm from his arctic trips--The North PoleLegacy Black, White and Eskimo--received aspecial NAACP Image award...
...Marielito, already once rescued by America, enjoy a preference over, say, an Italian-American vet or an Irish cop? A Richmond ordinance struck down two years ago by the Supreme Court assigned 30% of city subcontracts to firms owned by minorities, defined as "Blacks, Spanish-speaking ((citizens)), Orientals, Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts." Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, is not known for its mistreatment of Eskimos. Yet under the law, Richmond would have had to prefer an Alaskan Eskimo to a local white in city contracting...