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A Feb. 25 Carleton University symposium on the High Arctic relocations featured a youth panel hosted by law and human rights student Aliqa Illauq, top left, and featuring, clockwise from Illauq, Siku Rojas, Megan Dicker Nochasak, Lizzietina Nowkawalk Echalook, and Lexie Padluq, with interpreter for the hearing impaired, bottom middle. (Screenshot of Carleton University Centre for Indigenous Initiatives symposium)

8commentsNews Mar 6, 2021

Inuit youth shine at Ottawa university symposium

'I want to see more unapologetic Inuit, standing up for their rights,' Kimmirut’s Lexie Padluq says

If you’re looking for proof of Inuit resilience, or hope for the future of Inuit society, you would have found plenty of both during a daylong, online event hosted by Carleton University’s Centre for Indigenous Initiatives in Ottawa. Entitled, “The Inuit Relocations: Intergenerational Impacts and Inuit Resilience,” the sold-out virtual summit of predominantly female Inuit...

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