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From Ethnic to Political Identity

From Ethnic to Political Identity 312 From Ethnic to Political Identity By Jens Dahl At the "Small Nations of the North" conference in 1985 Douglas Sanders stressed the importance of territory to the small nations. He said "In my view no meaningful political autonomy is possible without a distinct territorial base for the population; integrated minorities may claim educational, linguistic, reli- gious, cultural and developmental rights, but any regime of political autonomy requires a jurisdictional boundary" (Sanders 1986:20). The significance of land to the Inuit people and to the Inuit cultures has often been reiterated by scientists and by the Inuit themselves. By doing so emphasis has been laid upon the roots that these societies have in what are usually labelled 'traditional hunting cultures'. The relation of the Inuit to land is of course economic in its nature, but it is also an integrated part of their cultural identity. The last 15-20 years a new significance has been inserted into the relationship between man and the land. In this relationship land is a defined, exclusive poli- tical territory. The recency of this relationship should be remembered when we later return to the role of political territory in the transformation of identity from being http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordic Journal of International Law Brill

From Ethnic to Political Identity

Dahl, Jens
Nordic Journal of International Law , Volume 57 (3): 312 – Jan 1, 1988
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0902-7351
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10.1163/157181088X00272
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312 From Ethnic to Political Identity By Jens Dahl At the "Small Nations of the North" conference in 1985 Douglas Sanders stressed the importance of territory to the small nations. He said "In my view no meaningful political autonomy is possible without a distinct territorial base for the population; integrated minorities may claim educational, linguistic, reli- gious, cultural and developmental rights, but any regime of political autonomy requires a jurisdictional boundary" (Sanders 1986:20). The significance of land to the Inuit people and to the Inuit cultures has often been reiterated by scientists and by the Inuit themselves. By doing so emphasis has been laid upon the roots that these societies have in what are usually labelled 'traditional hunting cultures'. The relation of the Inuit to land is of course economic in its nature, but it is also an integrated part of their cultural identity. The last 15-20 years a new significance has been inserted into the relationship between man and the land. In this relationship land is a defined, exclusive poli- tical territory. The recency of this relationship should be remembered when we later return to the role of political territory in the transformation of identity from being

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Published: Jan 1, 1988

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