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The North is a frontier area, or hinterland, shaped by processes primarily determined in more southerly metropolitan areas.1 Yet the relationship of the northern areas to the centers of political and economic decision making has evolved in numerous ways as resource extraction has intensified, regional autonomy has been achieved, and greater recognition has been secured for the land and other rights of the Aboriginal peoples. There is a relationship of tension between resource development, regional political autonomy, and Aboriginal rights, and sometimes of direct conflict. A development in one aspect necessarily affects the others. The social and economic characteristics of the regions and their populations have been highly important in determining how this relationship is played out.
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For the metropolis-hinterland model, see A. Campbell and K. Cameron (2006) ‘The North: Intersecting Worlds and World Views’, in G. Sherbert, A. Gérin, and S. Petty, eds, Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press), pp. 144–6.
W. R. Borneman (2003) Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land (New York: HarperCollins), p. 396.
N. A. Chance (1990) The Iñupiat and Arctic Alaska: An Ethnography of Development (Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston), p. 152.
R. D. Arnold et al. (1976) Alaska Native Land Claims (Anchorage: Alaska Native Foundation), pp. 114–18.
D. C. Mitchell (2001) Take My Land Take My Life: The Story of Congress’s Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960–1971 (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press), pp. 318–29.
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. See T. R. Berger (1985) Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission (New York: Hill and Wang), p. 26.
K. Cameron and G. Gomme (1991) A Compendium of Documents Relating to the Constitutional Development of the Yukon Territory (Whitehorse: Northern Directories), p. 34.
The political development of the North-West Territories is dealt with by L. H. Thomas (1956) The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories, 1870–1897 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press);
and L. H. Thomas (1970) The North-West Territories 1870–1905, Canadian Historical Association Booklets, No. 26 (Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association).
G. Friesen (1984) The Canadian Prairies: A History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 239–40.
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Campbell, A., Cameron, K. (2016). Constitutional Development and Natural Resources in the North. In: Berry, D.A., Bowles, N., Jones, H. (eds) Governing the North American Arctic. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493910_9
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