GN controlled by Ottawa’s white men in suits

I’m starting to think that Nunavut should lobby for sovereignty and soon. Ever since the Europeans started settling in Canada we the Inuit have been taken advantage of, whether it be with relocation, killing Inuit, killing Inuit dog teams, labeling Inuit as nonhumans, perhaps testing TB on Inuit, and many other cruelties towards Inuit.

Since all these minerals are being found in the Arctic, the government of Canada will take most of the money coming out of our mines in Nunavut. To me, the Nunavut government is just a puppet with no actual powers. To the Canadian government, we are a minority, they will take all our resources and give them to the rest of Canada and abroad.

We, the Inuit, never gave the lands to Canada or the British and French governments. Nor did we ever sign a treaty giving away any part of Nunavut to anybody. We are controlled (including the Nunavut government) by white men in fucking suits down in Ottawa.

They saw us as savages and they might still do. We have no control over the land, waters, and subsurface. If we have all these resources in our lands, we should have a say in everything and have more than 80 per cent or even all the rights to the resources. Imagine suing the Canadian Government for killing dog teams in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. If you think like this too, don’t hesitate for one moment and write what you think too.

Nick Illauq
Clyde River
nick_illauq@hotmail.com