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Article: Forty Years of Struggle and Still No Right to Inuit Education in Nunavut
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- Our Schools, Our Selves
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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After 40 years of negotiating a land claim, a new territory, and a new government, how is it possible that lnuit still don't have their own school system in Nunavut?
What do you think of when you hear the word "Nunavut"? Polar bears? The Canadian Arctic? Perhaps you think of lnuit, the majority population, 85% of the people in the new territory?
But do you think of an entire school system that doesn't operate in the lnuit language? Do you think of lnuit language students studying an Alberta curriculum in English schools run by Ontario and Newfoundland teachers?
That is the sad reality. There is no school in Nunavut that offers K- 12 education in the lnuit language, the mother tongue spoken ...