Inuit Voting Delayed by Faulty Generator
Reuters
YELLOWKNIFE, Canada —
Generator problems delayed voting Thursday on an agreement that would make Canada’s Inuit the world’s largest private landowners and help create a vast native homeland known as Nunavut.
An Eskimo political group said the breakdown of an electrical generator in Iqaluit, which has the biggest Inuit, or Eskimo, population in the remote Northwest Territories, forced cancellation of voting for the day on the 135,000-square-mile land agreement.
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