MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ellesmere Island, Inukjuak, Indian Register
2 Apr 2016
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Session 4 aboriginal peoples and religion in the workplace. Algonquian: ojibwa, cree, mi"kmaq, maliseet, innu, abenaki, blackfoot. Athabaskan: beaver, carrier, chilcorin, chipewyan, dogrib, han, hare, kaska, Eskimo: aleut and various distinctive dialects of inuktitut. 500,000 to 2 million at time of first contact. Greatest population in areas now known as vancouver, toronto and montreal. Open empty lands of canada created by disease smallpox being the greatest killer. Most of the native nation died within few years of first contact with. 1985 bill c-31 enabled reinstatement of people who lost indian status through marriage or through marriage of their mother. Inuit in canada for less than 10,000 years. 1939 canada asserted territorial claims in the arctic. 1940s & 1950s projects killed off caribou. 1953 moved people of inukjuak (port harrison) 3200 kms to ellesmere. 1950s/1960s inuit highest rate of tb in the world. 1999 nunavut established on 1 april. Descended of french fur traders and cree women.
