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They first came to the icy Arctic 4,000 years ago. The Inuit People are the first North Americans, braving some of the most hostile lands on Earth. Since the Dorset Culture circa 1000 BCE to 1000 CE they were also the first artists of the new world.
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Although the meeting of the International Whaling Commission last week has not led to any real result, not for the pro-whaling lobby nor for those groups who want to ban all whaling, a recent scientific study shows most whales to be fatally poisoned.
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is behind a plan to dump up to 1,200 liters of crude oil in the Arctic Ocean in a bid to test clean-up responses.
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The Canadian government agency would rather see more than 500 stranded endangered whales die than save them with icebreakers. They say icebreakers are noisy for the whales.
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Leave it to "Big Business" to screw over the Little Guy... I can't figure out how these Companies can get away with this kind of practice for so long...
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 Mary Simon will not run again to be the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. Simon has been president of Canada's national Inuit organization since 2006.
 After years of being under the guide of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Inuit are pushing for their own regional television network.
Inuit hunters from Greenland have been protesting in the Danish capital Copenhagen over the decision by a major department store to stop selling seal products.
 An Inuit organization that works on health prevention and promotion and translates information into Inuktitut says it will have trouble delivering its services because it is losing a major funding grant from Health Canada.
 The Inuit land claims organization in Nunavut got its first-ever royalty payment Tuesday. It got $2.2 million for allowing Agnico-Eagle's Meadowbank gold mine on Inuit-owned land.
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