Reports on economic, environmental, and cultural consequences of Nunavut

1. What are the economic, environmental, and cultural consequences of
viewing Nunavut of the territorial North as Canada's last frontier? Are the frontier and
homeland views of this region compatible with one another?
Economic.
Polese and Mario (2018) stated that Nunavut of the territorial North stands as Canada’s last
frontier for gas and oil exploration; hence, most engineering companies and are pushing
forward to oil exploration. In 2009, the United States Geological Survey stated that the
northern arctic Nunavut Canada last frontier contains approximately 160 billion barrels of
crude oil that can be used for about five years globally before it is depletion. The 160 billion
barrels of crude oil cumulatively include gas reserves and considerable oil.
Environmental.
Canada’s last frontier Nunavut’s is distinguished by hurricane-strength storms, extended
seasons of darkness, extreme cold seasons and poor visibility, which affects the working
surroundings and makes accessibility of Nunavut difficult. The standard daily temperatures
experienced in Nunavut during winter months range from negative 30 degrees to about
negative 55 degrees Celsius; hence, this means that very low sunshine is received. The wind
chills also range to about negative 70 degrees Celsius (Bott and Robert D, 2015)
The arctic Nunavut melted its ice cover in 2012 to its lowest extent. The sea ice extent fell to
approximately 1.58 million square miles, which was 27000 square miles below the 2007 sea
ice fell of about 1.61 million square miles. The continuous meltdown of the arctic ice may
make it very economical and easy to transport carbon components and products to industries
for production.

Cultural.
According to the frontier, the Northern hemisphere Nunavut had early explorers and traders
who believed in the traditional lifestyle. The Nunavut is home for about 33,000 aboriginal
Inuit of the 33000 inuits in Nunavut more than half of the population lives in the eastern
Qikiqtaaluk part of the territory which is mostly composed of very young people.
Approximately three-quarters of people in Inuit are less than 40 years old.
Nunavut has been home to a large group of indigenous people for over 4000 years. Most
geneticists and archaeologists have concluded that the residents of Nunavut today originated
from the area of Bering Strait which separates Asia from North America. The first indigenous
group in Nunavut commonly known as the Paleo Eskimos, they crossed the Beriting Strait in
the 3000 Bc and moved straight into the Canadian arctic around 2500 Bc because of climate
change. From there the people followed sea animals and herds of big land animals across
Nunavut to Greenland.
 Paleo-Eskimo Culture: 2500 BC to 1500 BC. This ancient man had blood type A+
his and possed genes that suggested he was adapted to cold places, with brown skin, dark
hair, and brown eyes.
 Pre-Dorset Culture (‘Saqqaq’): 2500 BC to 500 BC. They lived in temporary
settlements made out of the skin, and sometimes they constructed snow houses. Their tools
and weapons had very minute cutting edges chipped from stones
 Dorset Culture (‘Tuniit’ or ‘Sivullirmiut’): 500 BC to 1500 AD The Dorset have
had difficulties in adapting to the warm temperatures in Nunavut around 950 AD to 1250 AD
and so they were quickly displaced by the strong Thule culture.,
 Thule Culture (Proto-Inuit): 1000 AD to 1600 AD. Thule people are known
historically for using slate knives, sealskin floats, and toggling harpoons. There
weapons and technology was better than of the Dorset people.

 Inuit Culture (Eskimo): 1600 AD to present-day
Are the frontier and homeland views of the Nunavut region compatible with one
another?
They are not compatible because the frontier advocates for the exploitation of natural
resources in Nunavut while the homeland view states that and shows a thousand users of the
indigenous land and sea by communities that lived there. Also, the idea of the north being the
frontier is dull and uncreative while that of the north being homeland is distinguished by
assortment and convolution in the population demographics, economy, and culture. The north
as the homeland has stood firm against time, showing suppleness and the facts about
indigenous life while the development in the northern stated by frontier is invasive and
unbending by bust and bust cycles.
Below is a table that shows the different views that are shown in the homeland and frontier
about Nunavut.
ATTRIBUTES Column1
Homeland Frontier
Northern Southern
Traditional
Lifestyle
Staples
Exploitation
Diverse and
Complex
Myopic and
Simplicity
Sustainable Boom and Bust
Circumpolar
Linkages Southern Markets