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NEWS ABOUT: Inuit

Inuit stories: 5 news summaries

Teen Survives Night Stranded With Polar Bears

Canadian youth rescued from Arctic ice floe

Nov 10, 09 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A 17-year-old Inuit youth is in a local hospital with hypothermia after spending over 24 hours stranded on a drifting ice floe in Canada's Hudson Bay with three polar bears. The teen became separated from his uncle as the two walked back toward a settlement after their snowmobile broke down... More »

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Canada • Arctic • polar bear • rescue • Inuit • search and rescue

Norway Summit to Debate Cutback in Polar Bear Hunts

Hunters kill 3% of polar bears each year

Mar 16, 09 4:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - World leaders meet tomorrow in Norway to consider reducing polar bear hunting, reports the Independent. Conservation organizations estimate the polar bear population, particularly hard hit by global warming, will drop two-thirds to the brink of extinction over the next 50 years. Greenland, the US and Russia permit hunting by Inuit... More »

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Russia • global warming • Canada • United States • Arctic • Norway • hunting • Inuit • polar bears

 Greenland Votes for Self-Rule 

Danish territory wants to control own police force, oil fields

Nov 26, 08 10:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Three-fourths of the Greenlanders who voted in yesterday’s referendum on self-rule want more autonomy from Denmark, Time reports. The historic vote—which must still be adopted by parliaments in Copenhagen and Nuuk—puts the world’s largest island on the path to becoming the first independent Inuit state. But... More »

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independence • Greenland • Denmark • oil drilling • Inuit • autonomy

Hunting Canada's Polar Bears Breeds Heated Argument 

Scientists, locals clash over quotas in Canada's frozen north

Nov 21, 08 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - One man’s endangered species is another’s livelihood in the Arctic north, where polar bear hunting is this season’s hot-button issue, the Economist reports. Scientists set a sustainable annual quota to protect dwindling species near the Canada-Greenland border, but some Inuit locals—who distrust outsiders and use the... More »

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Canada • hunting • polar bear • Inuit

 Canada Apologizes
 to Indigenous Groups 

 Ottawa admits abuse of native cultures

Jun 12, 08 4:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canada formally apologized to its indigenous peoples yesterday for forcing children to attend government-run schools where they were often sexually and physically abused. Prime Minister Stephen Harper read the apology in Parliament, calling the forced assimilation a "sad chapter" in the nation's history that damaged several generations, the Globe ... More »

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Canada • sexual abuse • House of Commons • Stephen Harper • compensation • Inuit • Assembly of First Nations • residential schools • physical abuse • Metis • First Nations • assimilation

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