That's Interesting!
Inuit never call themselves this, it was a Cree term, meaning "eater of raw meat" The Inuit describe themselves as human beings
What is Eskimo?
After the disc program, Inuit were idenitified by Project Surname until this year, except in Nunavik, Quebec where the system lasted several years longer because it was administered by a different government
What is 1970?
16 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?
This was not part of any traditional Inuit naming convention
What is a surname?
One of the calls to action is the preservation, revitalization, and strengthening of Aboriginal languages and cultures. This has included renaming geographical locations using Inuit names. Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, was previously referred to as this
What is Frobisher Bay?
Names were not gender specific, males could be named after females and vice-versa
What is traditional Inuit names?
Before this year, the cost for Inuit wishing to change their names or the spelling of their names as a result of Project Surname was $795.
What is 2000?
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?
This new writing system was created for the Inuit by the Inuit Cultural Institute, and is still used today
What is the roman orthography?
The calls to Action include librarians and archivists ensuring Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why, with regard to human rights violations committed against them in the residential schools. Families looking for records relating to their relatives may need to have these pieces of information
What is their tag number, assigned name and any further name changes
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?
Abraham Okpik, the first Inuk to sit on the Northwest Territories’ Territorial Council and was instrumental in naming Inuit who’d been reduced to numbers by a colonial government. As director of “Project Surname”, Okpik travelled to every Inuit community to ask what they wanted to be called, was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition of his work
What is 1976?
The Royal Commission on Aboringial People's issued a report on the relocation program in this year
What is 1994?
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 (Resolute Bay) and Grise Fiord?
A ruling from the Supreme Court in this year finally recognized Inuit as being included in the definition of Indians in the Constitution
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"?
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 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?