Ifeel resentment growing around me as the media highlight Indigenous “resistance” to the development of major projects — many of them involving natural resources and northern gateways. I invite you to look back at our shared history and, in so doing, find a better path toward reconciliation through working together with respect and equality.

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Long before Europeans entered northern Canada, the territorial lines around western Hudson Bay were drawn by First Nations — mainly the Inuit of what is now the Inuvik region of Nunavut, the Cree in the southern regions, with overlapping territories with the Anishinaabe and others, such as the Dene.

The first European to encounter the Inuit was Martin Frobisher, who, in his search for the Northwest Passage, i

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