Presenting the critical elements for a new and meaningful relationship between the Inuit and the emerging industrial society of Northern Canada, this publication includes: (1) Canada as a Nation State and Northern Development; (2) Northern Development and Institutions in Decision-Making; (3) The Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory as Jurisdictions and the Decision-Making Process; (4) Arctic Native Peoples and Land Claims; (5) Recent Court Developments and the Question of Native Title and Related Political Developments; (6) Historical Legal Theory and Practice and Native Title; (7) The Moral Reasons for a Land Claims Settlement; (8) Social Policy Through a Land Claims Settlement; (9) The Prospects and Principles of Settlement of Land Claims in Canada's North; (10) Recent Practice and the Settlement of Northern Land Claims: The James Bay Land Claims Settlement; (11) The Alaska Land Claims Settlement of December, 1971; (12) The Abortive Yukon Land Claims Settlement; (13) Future Land Claims Settlements in Northern Canada; (14) The Critical Elements of Any Northern Land Claims Settlement; (15) The Proposal for the Settlement of Inuit Land Claims in the Northwest Territories and Yukon; (16) Preservation of Inuit Identity and the Traditional Way of Life; (17) Enabling the Inuit to be Equal and Meaningful Participants in the Changing North and Canadian Society; (18) Achieving Fair and Reasonable Compensation/Benefits for the Inuit in Exchange for Extinguishment of Inuit Claims; (19) Protection/Preservation of the Arctic Ecology and Environment. (JC)