Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree, speaking in front of a poster of Inuit sled dogs, apologizes for the slaughter of qimmiit, or sled dogs, in the 1950s and 1960s. (Screenshot courtesy of Makivvik Corp.)
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Killing of qimmiit in 1950s and 1960s was ‘terrible historic injustice,’ federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister says
The federal government will give Makivvik Corp. $45 million as part of its apology for what it called the “unjustified killing” of sled dogs in Nunavik in the 1950s and 1960s.
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