Posted on 17/05/08
Polar bear politics hurt Inuit
Your editorial on the U.S. decision to list the polar bear as threatened (Burying Our Heads In The Snow - May 15) insults the significant knowledge Inuit have about the species. Your characterization of Inuit traditional knowledge is condescending, and trivializes a central part of an indigenous culture that is thousands of years old, and that the Supreme Court of Canada has understood by virtue of the Delgamukw case.
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