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Self-governance VS Linguistic Peace among the Canadian Inuit Michelle Daveluy University of Alberta Edmonton, Alber

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Self-governance VS Linguistic Peace among the Canadian Inuit Michelle Daveluy University of Alberta Edmonton, Alber

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    3. Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights Inuit Circumpolar Conference Ottawa, Canada Carl Chr. Olsen, linguist Nuuk

    6. Stats Canada (CBC North, 21 janvier 2003) +/- 45 000 Inuit in Canada +20, 000 in Nunavut -10,000 in Nunavik

    7. James Bay Agreement

    8. Dorais 1996 Despite centuries of contact and increasing pressure from English and French, almost 99% of the Inuit population in Nunavik will, it is estimated, continue to speak Inuktitut as a home language all their lives.

    9. Law 101 I know this is a bad graphic, but there wasn’t much there. There is a hyperlink to the English version of the law if you click on Law 101.I know this is a bad graphic, but there wasn’t much there. There is a hyperlink to the English version of the law if you click on Law 101.

    10. Dorais 1979: 76 The new Provincial policy will probably do some good to the language of the Inuit: it shall be taught in all Northern Quebec schools. Its status, however, will be strictly local. Both levels of government discourage the emergence of a pan-Inuit or pan-aboriginal nationalism. Northen Quebec people are forced to become either English Canadian or French Québécois Inuit.

    11. Nunavut 3 official languages Inuktitut, English, French

    12. Bathurst Mandate “…fully functional bilingual society, in Inuktitut and English, respectful and committed to the needs and rights of French speakers, with a growing ability to participate in French.”

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