New Owners in their Own Land: Minerals and Inuit Land Claims is a well-researched treatment of the institutional, political, and personal conflicts that guided the process of Nunavut land claim negotiations. McPherson carefully considers the connection between resource development stemming from the days of oil and gas exploration in the Arctic in the 1960s and the Inuit's ensuing battle for self-determination. He outlines the federal government's -business-as-usual- tactic in pushing exploration further north onto Inuit territory and sheds light on exactly how the precedent-settling agreement...