Today is an incredibly important anniversary in the field of Canadian-Indigenous relations.  It was on this date in 1991 that the federal government under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney reached the final land claims agreement with Canada’s Inuit brothers and sisters in the Eastern Arctic.  This, of course, while historic in itself, paved the way for even more history to made over the next few years with the creation of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.  PM Mulroney, in his final days as Prime Minister in May of 1993, traveled north to Iqaluit for the final signing ceremony. I worked as a reporter in the Northwest Territories between 1997 and 1999 as the establishment of Nunavut came closer and closer to reality. I was back south, in Ontario, when Nunavut officially came into being on April 1, 1999, but I can recall like yesterday the excitement as the big day approached. Even today, all these years later, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will tell you that the topic Canadian school children write to him most about is Nunavut. So, let’s all recall this special anniversary day that is of great importance to all Indigenous peoples, particularly the Inuit in what is now their own territory called Nunavut. Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also proudly served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.