Canada, Inuit -- Canada -- History, Inuit -- Canada, Inuit, Northern Canada -- History, Northern Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Northern Canada -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Northern Canada, Cree, Dene 

"For more than fifteen years, Keith Crowe's A History of the Original Peoples of Northern Canada has informed a multitude of residents in and visitors to the Canadian North and has served as a standard text. Now, in a revised edition, Crowe describes and analyses the changes in the North which have come about since the book's first publication.

In his new epilogue, he surveys the major land claims since 1974 — some settled, most still under negotiation, and some, like the James Bay hydro-electric project, being challenged. Crowe also explains the complexities of the land-claims process and points out the irony inherent in native peoples having to help create numerous "foreign" laws and institutions in order to project and essentially simple way of life. He describes the native peoples' movement into and up the ranks of government at all levels and emphasizes the important role played by regional and national native associations such as the Assembly of First Nations. He outlines the changes and developments in education in the North and provides a detailed assessment of the still very difficult economic situation, stressing the native peoples' concern that economic development in the North not be divorced from environmental considerations."--Back cover. 

x, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm