Photo: A qaggiq for healing

A look up to the top of the large qaggiq in Rankin Inlet made by elders for participants in this past week’s commemoration event in Rankin Inlet, “Left behind-Never Again,” for residential school survivors. The theme: “honouring the children taken and healing and moving forward with those left behind.” The igloo has provided a protective place for healing, said Piita Irniq, who attended the Sir Joseph Bernier residential school as a young boy — and it has also offered a chance for youth in the community to hear about the residential school experience that Irniq and others lived through. Read more about the event March 11 on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PIITA IRNIQ)