Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic

[...]the authors exclude from the book Canada's other, most familiar Inuit settlement region, Nunavut, which uniquely comprises a purpose-built federal subunit.) The authors study their cases through three analytical lenses, each discussed in Chapter One. [...]the authors note the repercussions of past non-institutional factors, ranging from the suigeneris influence of key Inuit and public-government leaders to the discovery of valuable resources on Inuit-claimed land, which raised the stakes for all treaty-table parties. [...]Canadian public authorities have resisted change, often continuing to relate to Inuit regions in a top-down, pre-treaty manner, with old intergovernmental patterns predominating and Inuit multi-level governance emerging only incrementally in certain policy areas.