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In this article issues related to policy and education in the Canadian Arctic are critically put to question. The focus is on the struggle for Inuit education, language issues, and supporting minority rights, with pragmatic solutions proposed to the problems confronting Nunavut.
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Note: This article was originally published in Our Schools / Our Selves, fall 2009, pp. 67–86.
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Rasmussen, D. Forty Years of Struggle and Still no Right to Inuit Education in Nunavut. Interchange 42, 137–155 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-011-9152-5
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