INUITS AND THE BRITISH CROWN: OWNERS OF THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF CANADA´S NUNAVUT

A recent Inuit´s trophy (Ursus maritimus) for sale. Source: BBC.

By Gundhramns Hammer
January 6, 2014
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The territory of Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada and most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Fig. 1).

Figure 1. Nunavut, Canada. Source: North Pole Challenge.

The name “Nunavut” means “our land” in Inuktitut, is one of the main Inuit languages of Canada, spoken by native people living north of the tree line. 

The capital of the Nunavut is Iqaluit on Baffin Island, the largest island in Canada and fifth largest island in the world. 

In a way, Baffin Island sort of looks like an upside down Scottish terrier dog (Fig. 1). This big chunk of icy land is located in the Arctic Ocean. It has a human population of approximately 11,000. Most people resides in Iqaluit, one of the nine cities on the island.

All of this area has been recently claimed by the Inuit people inhabiting this region. This area is "Canada´s rising star".

As a result mines, mining projects and "developing" (= screwing up the land) projects (Fig. 2, Table 1) are coming into north Canada. It is obvious that animals and plants are now and will be in the future under pressure and in peril in Canada´s northern and Arctic regions.

Figure 2. Aerial view of De Beers Canada´s Snap Lake mine. Source: NWT/Nunavut Mining (November 2012).

Table 1. Mines and mining projects in Nunavut (Canada). Source: Mining Journal - Nunavut (February 2012).

It is common knowledge that man (Homo insapiens) is not a short or long term good manager of any land. We must admit at least this.

If "native folks" appear to "conserve nature" it is because their numbers have been small in the past or have lacked the adequate technology to fuck up Mother Nature. 

Even then, with primitive hunting tools, there is evidence that Palaeo-Indians, for instance, played a major role in the Pleistocene extinctions of the North American megafauna (Gibbons, 2004; Martin, 1967).

So, what do you get when "nature people" are pushed into a money economy, get into obsessive social climbing, get their hands on advanced technology, become restless and anxious, fall into the trap of insecurity for the future, get greedy hearts and acquire other vices and unnecessary "needs" of modern living?

Besides other things, you get people unleashing slow or fast environmental destruction and pollution "wisely" disguised as "economic development". This is the pattern of any "progressing" modern human societies so far, anyway.

After all, progress and modern living can be described as being emotionally dysfunctional, being up to the neck with debts, having a refrigerator full of junk foods, having the colon full of bleeding polyps or cancer and the asshole decorated with bunches of burning hemorrhoids. 

And humans being such lazy primatoform creatures can easily get hooked on "progress". It is said that Dr. Napoleon A. Chagnon, an American anthropologist who lived and studied the Yanamamö people of South America, once admitted that these "noble savages" were constantly bothering him and demanding from him gadgets and tools from the outside world. 

In short, the romantic idea that nature people, natives, aborigines or whatever name you want to call them by, are "noble savages" in "close contact with nature" is utterly bullshit.

Why the fuck beat about the bush? Man utterly behaves as a cancer wherever he goes or is. Sooner or later.

And if man ever plant trees is only because of economic reasons and not for the love of Mother Nature. Of course, there are exceptions. Very few. Nature is always playing with new combinations.

Overall, we humans are true terraclasts (Video 1). There is no question about this.

                          Video 1. Man (Homo insapiens), the terraclast.



So this fucking business of "management", "development" and "sustainability" is nothing but cheap talk. In other words, it is piles of bullshit.

The proof is everywhere to be seen. We humans have fucked up planet Earth.

But what the fuck are we talking about? What´s the connection?

As you will soon see we are talking about some land claims by "native people". Native Canadians in the northern regions.

But before we go on, keep in mind that there is no such a thing as "native people". 

People basically fall more in the category of invaders. And many a times with terrible consequences for the local fauna or flora. 

Remember the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)?

Now let us take a look at one of these documents, a land claim by "native" Canadians. Hereby understanding true natives are those species that have evolved since the beginning of time in the region. For example wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo).



Land claims by native Canadians

According to the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, there are two types of Aboriginal claims in that are commonly referred to as “land claims” (Fig. 3): comprehensive claims and specific claims.  Comprehensive claims always involve land, but specific claims are not necessarily land-related.


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Figure 3. Modern Treaties-Self-Government and Comprehensive Claims completed Agreements. Source: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

The land claim of the Inuit of Canada´s Nunavut region (Fig. 3) fall into the category of comprehensive claim.

Only by reading this document we can understand what it entails:

To read the full document of the Agreement between the Inuit of the Nunavut Settlement Area and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada: Click HERE.

So the future of everything wild including the lives of the fauna and flora in Nunavut is in the hands of the Inuit and the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, the person in Right of Canada.



Nunavut´s Inuits are being harvested

A "developing" hurricane has hit up north in Canada. Inuits have fallen victims under its spell. They are frequently hunting to get money. 

Inuits are killing polar bears (Fig. 4-5), for instance, to sell the skin and meat in their own communities or sometimes sell these to the southern mafia involved in the polar meat trade around the world. 

Figure 4. Inuit hunter show skin of a recently killed polar bear (Ursus maritimus). Source: BBC.

 

Figure 5. Fore claw of the victim (Ursus maritimus) hunted by an Inuit man. Source: BBC.

Now the Inuits of Nunavut and other areas in Canada´s northern and Arctic regions hunt to "fulfill" their new "needs". Sounds familiar? 
 
Inuits "need" money to buy junk food and cigarettes, pay the utility bills (gas, electricity, etc.), buy or pay for TV sets and computers, pay for vehicles and insurance, buy ammunition, pay for the gasoline for the snowmobiles and 4WD vehicles, etc. It is a never ending story of bills upon bills.

Their self-suffiency in such harsh environment went out of the window and most Inuits have now adopted the Western style of living with its negative and positive consequences. 

Although Inuits suffered from diseases such as cancer (nasopharyngeal, brain, breast, etc.), arthrosis, birth defects and other health problems from a diet based mostly on meat in the past,  for they had a "primitive diet and had a primtive death", a change in diet to processed foods has had a tremendous negative impact upon their health. 

According to the Canada´s National Inuit Organization (2009), "lung cancer rates for Inuit men and women in Canada are the highest in the world and these rates are rising. The death rate from strokes is twice as high for men and women in Inuit communities than for all Canadians. Women in Inuit communities have a COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] death rate that is 10 times that of other Canadian women. Death rates for perinatal and congenital conditions are more than 2 times higher for those in Inuit communities."

But let us come back to the business of land claims which can be a double-edged knife. Let get a bit sophisticated with language usage. 

Under the above Agreement between the Inuit and the British Crown, killing wildlife is called "harvesting". 

By the Agreement´s terminology, "harvest" means “the reduction of wildlife into possession, and includes hunting, trapping... spearing, killing, capturing or taking by any means.”

But who is really hunting whom? 

Little do the Inuit people know that they are also being "harvested" by outside powers, those few oligarchs who own and control the global money. 

We all know that the cannibalistic XXI century global economy is always searching for new markets to shove their "processed" stuff down the consumers´ gullets.

Thus, the Arctic hunters are being "harvested". 

The Hidden Hand now owns Inuits.



References


Gibbons R. (2004). Examining the extinction of the Pleistocene Megafauna. SURJ, Anthropol. Sci., Spring 2004: 22-27.

Martin, Paul S. (1967). Prehistoric Overkill. In: Pp. 75-120, Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, Martin P. S. & Wright Jr. H. E (Eds.), Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA. 453 p.

Stern P. R. (2004). Historical Dictionary of the Inuit. Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures Nº 2, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA. 199 p. 

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