Arctic revolution :

"For more than 300 years, the true Canadian North (north of the 60th parallel) was ruled either as a private fiefdom of the Hudson's Bay Company or as a far-off colony of Ottawa. The gold rush of 1898 changed that for the Yukon, but it wasn't until 1935 that the Northwest Territories started to organize itself into a political entity and not until 1953 that the true revolution began. Arctic Revolution traces the events and movements that have altered the NWT between 1953 and 1994 - the impact of the Cold War; the CANOL Project; the evolution of the native organizations; the Berger Mackenzie valley Pipeline Inquiry; the growth of an indigenous broadcasting system; land claims negotiations with the Inuvialuit in the Mackenzie Delta, the Inuit in the eastern Arctic, and the Dené in the Mackenzie Valley; social change at the community level; native women's invaluable contribution to the North's social and political revolution. And all of this has been building towards the coming into being of Nunavut in 1999, a massive self-governing territory in the eastern Arctic. The author interviewed many of the players in this ongoing drama. Their words, especially those of the Dené, Métis, Inuit, or Inuvialuit, vitally enhance this grass-roots portrait of one of Canada's most dynamic regions." - Provided by Publisher