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"World leaders often invoke "the northern character," but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Duddly Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. During decades of service as a legislator, mediator, and negotiator, Tony Penikett witnessed a new northern consciousness grow out of the challenges of the Cold War, climate change, land rights struggles, and the boom and bust of resource megaprojects. His lively account of clashes and accommodations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders not only retraces the footsteps of his hunt for a northern identity but tells the story of an Arctic that the world does not yet know."--Provided by publisher

In the hundred years since British Columbia joined Confederation, Canada has negotiated only one treaty in the province. A decade after signing the Nisga'a treaty, and despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars, the BC Treaty Commission process had not finalized a single treaty. This impassioned book explains why.The long answer to the question, says author Tony Penikett, is rooted in colonial history: provincial resistance, federal indifference and judicial equivocation. The short answer is that Canadian governments have wanted treaties solely on their own terms. Drawing on three decade

The indigenous rights movement has been defined as a struggle for land and jurisdiction. Over the last forty years, American and Canadian governments made much progress on the land question in the Arctic and sub-Arctic; however, from an irrational fear of the unknown, politicians in Washington, D.C. and Ottawa have effectively blocked the pathways to aboriginal jurisdiction or self-government. During the late-twentieth century in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, as well as in Nisga'a territory, indigenous governments negotiated local government powers, but continent-wide progress on the question of indigenous jurisdiction has stalled. This Article considers the formation and implementation of land treaties with indigenous peoples, the international impact of such treaties, the effect of settler history, and the struggle for indigenous jurisdiction. It concludes that if the governments do not open their hearts and minds to the cause, First Nation frustration could turn into violent confrontation.

I SERVE AS THE MEMBER OF THE YUKON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR WHITEHORSE WEST. I'M NOT AN "HONOURABLE" MEMBER, MERELY A MEMBER. YOU DON'T BECOME "HONOURABLE" HERE UNTIL YOU BECOME A MINISTER. MY OTHER POLITICAL ROLES INCLUDE TERRITORIAL PARTY LEADER AND NATIONAL PARTY PRESIDENT.