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Acta Borealia
A Nordic Journal of Circumpolar Societies
Volume 13, 1996 - Issue 1
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“Our heritage, our identity”

The case of the Labrador Metis AssociationFootnote1

Pages 23-34 | Published online: 24 Jun 2008

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  • This paper draws on archival and field research in Labrador stretching back to 1971. An earlier version of the paper was presented on 19 May 1995 as a seminar (entitled “Recent Developments in Labrador Ethnopolitics") for social anthropologists at Tromsø University. I thank them and my wife, Karen Olsson, for comments on the paper.

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