Sentence examples for nunavut from inspiring English sources

Mr Okalik has led Nunavut since the territory, encompassing most of Canada's Arctic archipelago, was created in 1999 to settle a land claim by the Inuit (once known as Eskimos).

Subsidy accounts for 60% of budget revenues in the Yukon and Northwest Territories and more than 80% in Nunavut.

In Nunavut new social housing is being built with federal money.

After Britain ceded control in 1880, federal officials in Ottawa treated their Arctic territories the Yukon, the site of the Klondike gold rush, and the Northwest Territories (from which Nunavut was split)—as internal colonies.Nomadic hunters were forced off the land into settlements.

Cape Columbia, at latitude 83°07′ N, is the most northerly point of Canada, and Barbeau Peak, at an elevation of 8,583 feet (2,616 metres), is the highest point in Nunavut.

In what is now Nunavut on the west coast of Hudson Bay in Canada, communal feasting, dancing, singing, games, and shamanistic performances took place within a circle of bones or one of stones.

Somerset Island, island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut.

Canada's Inuit people recently had the chance to decide what kind of legislature they wanted to govern Nunavut, a mainly Inuit territory to be created in the eastern Arctic, itself a bit of tokenism.

The EU reckons the hunt is cruel; the locals in Nunavut, and hunters elsewhere in Canada, disagree, and have some evidence to back this up.

Perhaps if we gave our hunters lab coats we would be taken more seriously.Gabriel Nirlungayuk Director of wildlife Nunavut Tunngavik Inc Rankin Inlet, CanadaTurkey and the worldSIR – Your report on Turkey's prime minister contradicted the real situation ("The worrying Tayyip Erdogan", November 29th).

But the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board—an Inuit-controlled body that makes the final recommendation decided to set the number at 105.