The Labrador Inuit have voted yes on a deal that would allow them to create their own Inuit homeland called Nunasiavut.

The Labrador Inuit Association has made a deal with the Canadian Federal Government and Newfoundland's Provincial Government that will give them 73,000 square kilometres of land in Labrador, $255 million in cash, and the right to some self-government .

The deal also guarantees the Inuit rights to hunting and fishing on the land and ocean in the area, rights to participate in wildlife and resource management, and environmental protection .

On Monday , the Labrador Inuit voted overwhelmingly in favor of the agreement.

Native land claims are modern agreements that provide an aboriginal group with land, resources and some power to govern themselves. The Labrador Inuit claim some parts of northern Labrador and northeastern Quebec belong to them. They want to govern themselves in land that they claim as their own.

This would be the first land claims agreement the Labrador Inuit have ever signed. They have never before made a land claims agreement with the Government of Canada, or the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The president of the Labrador Inuit Association says this deal is the best one the Inuit have been offered in the many years of negotiations. He says it has taken the Labrador Inuit over 20 years and over $30 million to get this far.

Now it's up to the federal and provincial governments to approve the deal, and make Nunasiavut a reality.

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