Word: inuit
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...directorial debut, this ponytailed stud -- the most consistently successful action star worldwide -- kicks butt in the name of political correctness. He plays Forrest Taft, the usual genius renegade from the CIA who bonds with sacred Inuit spirits and works every woodland trick in the boy scout manual. He also thwarts an oil company run by evil Michael Caine. But first a few good guys must be beaten, kicked and de-fingered, all to give Forrest an excuse to cripple his enemies and blow up most of Alaska...
...Erik the Red, an early real estate promoter who hoped to attract settlers. Most recently, Danes have mined and exhausted Greenland's vast reserves of cryolite, a mineral used in the refining of aluminum, while giving only perfunctory and highly patronizing attention to the culture of the native Inuit...
...panelist 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...
Elijah Harper, a Cree-Ojibway Indian and legislator in the province of Manitoba, became a hero to Canadian Indians and Inuit two years ago when he brought the machinery of national constitutional reform to a halt. His decisive no in the Manitoba legislative assembly not only doomed a complex pact designed to put the Canadian confederation on a new footing but also sent the country's political leadership back to the drawing board. Spurred in part by the Manitoban's stubborn stand, federal and provincial leaders agreed for the first time that a revised constitution must recognize native peoples' "inherent...
...seems to be in the making. In Canada the commitment to native self-determination followed another major step: the creation of a self-governing entity called Nunavut out of the vast Northwest Territories, effectively turning a fifth of Canada's 4 million-sq.- mi. territory over to 17,500 Inuit. In the province of Quebec, persistent agitation by 10,000 Inuit and Cree Indians against the second phase of an $11 billion hydroelectric project at James Bay, which would flood thousands more acres of Indian and Inuit lands, has placed the enterprise's future in doubt...