High Arctic relocation
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high-arctic-relocation-189-235998
title:
High Arctic relocation
text:
The High Arctic relocation took place during the Cold War in the 1950s, when 92 Inuit were moved by the Government of Canada under Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to the High Arctic. The relocation has been a source of controversy: on one hand being described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving indigenous people and enable them to continue a subsistence lifestyle; and on the other hand, said to be a forced migration instigated by the federal government to assert its
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encyclopedia
description:
Relocation of Inuit population by Canada
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arctic_relocation
date created:
2008-09-27T16:14:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:27:46Z
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