Myths
This was the real reason why the federal government forcefully relocated the Inuit of Inukjuak to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay, not over population and moral decline
What is Arctic Soverignity?
92 Inuit families were relocated to two communities in the High Arctic (Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay), 11 from Inukjuak and 5 from Pond Inlet in these years
What is 1953 and 1955?
In 2010, The federal government officially recognized the inhumane treatment and suffering caused by the relocation correcting the conclusion issued in this report that was absolving them of all wrong doing
What is the Hackling Report (1990)?
A monument in Resolute, Nunavut, depicts a man looking out at the Arctic Ocean, carved by Simeonie Amarualik
What is a tribute to the Inuit who were forcibly relocated to the High Arctic by the Federal Government in the 1950s?
These settlements/communites still exist to this day, even though some of the Inuit families relocated back to their home communities
What is Qausuittuq and Grise Fiord?
Some families returned, at their own expense, and left behind other family members and belongings to their original homes during these decades
What is the 1970s and 1980s?
The Inuit families way of life that the government tried to contain by relocating them in an adverse and unknown ecosystem
What is nomadic?
Families who volunteered to relocate were kept together
What is false?
The Royal Commission on Aboringial People's issued a report on the relocation program in this year
What is 1994?
The Government promised these to get Inuit families to "volunteer" to relocate
What is large and plentiful wildlife to hunt and the promise to return home after 2 years?
The Canadian Government established this in 1996, which offered a $10mil fund for relocated families but only if they acknowledged that the government acted honourably
What is the "Reconcilliation Agreement"?