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Resentment of the political establishment weighed heavily too. Brian Mulroney, already the most unpopular Prime Minister in the history of Canadian polling, was a big loser. According to one survey, his campaigning for the accord created twice as many no votes as yesses. Aboriginal peoples -- Indians and Inuit (Eskimos) -- also suffered badly. The rejected constitution would have granted them greatly increased self-government...
...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...
Though the plebiscite was not formally binding on the Canadian government, Ottawa is going ahead with its plans to set up a local administration and hand over political control of the area by 1999. In November the residents, 85% of whom are Inuit, will be asked to vote again on a complicated land settlement. The deal will offer the Inuit outright ownership of 135,000 sq. mi. and a cash payment of $1 billion over 14 years. If it is accepted, a crash program will begin training the Inuit to take over administration of the Nunavut territorial government...
...Quebec government declared these people -- the Cree, the Mohawk, the Huron, the Algonquin and others -- distinct nations, and offered them a path to self-government within Quebec's boundaries. But if you think that 20,000 Cree and Inuit are going to leave Quebec and take two-thirds of its territory...
Louis Pilakapsi, head of the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, predicted that the pact "will result in a better social and economic state for the Inuit people," But it must still pass muster in the federal Parliament and plebiscites in both the Northwest Territories and the future Nunavut. Dene Indians in the western third of the Territories charge that the settlement undermines their demand for total self-government and control of oil and mineral wealth in their region...