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HARP-298 |
Title: |
Innu Women and NATO: The Occupation of Nitassinan |
Source: |
Cultural Survival Quarterly, Issue 14.2, http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/print/article_print.cfm?id=0000025B-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 |
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Year: |
1990 |
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0 |
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Keywords: |
Canada, human rights, politics, civil and political rights, indigenous people, Newfoundland, Inuit, North Atlantic Treaty Organiation (NATO), armed force, military/militarism, minority rights, self-determination |
Abstract: |
Northwest River, Labrador, a place called Nitassinan, or “our land,” by the Innu people who have lived there for some 9,000 years, and a place known as Goose Bay to the Canadian Armed Forces and, more recently, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), is the site of one of the most enduring and widely recognized struggles against militarism on the North American continent. This is the struggle of the Innu people against the expansion of the military base, from the present 8,000 flights a year to more than 40,000 flights in a low-level flight training center. The Innu people – and recently a New-foundland court decision – maintain that this is their land, and they intend to protect it. The Canadian government, in a bid for the billion-dollar international NATO facilities, sees Goose Bay as a money-making military venture. |
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Keywords: armed force, Canada, civil and political rights, human rights, indigenous people, Inuit, military/military services, minority rights, Newfoundland, North Atlantic Treaty Organiation (NATO), politics, self-determination