QIA conference opens with focus on owning, caring for dog teams
Earlier this month organization announced its Qimuksiqtiit pilot project will be permanent
Qikiqtani Inuit Association’s regional Qimuksiqtiit Conference kicked off at the Aqsarniit Hotel in Iqaluit Tuesday morning. (Photo courtesy of Qikiqtani Inuit Association)
Qikiqtani Inuit Association’s regional Qimuksiqtiit conference kicked off Tuesday with participants from Nunavut and Nunavik focusing on the theme of “learning from each other,” at the Arqsarniit Hotel and Conference Centre in Iqaluit.
QIA wants to revitalize qimmiqaniq practices — owning and caring for a dog team — by assisting Qikiqtani Inuit who are involved already and in helping educate those who aspire to take part.
Discussions were expected to include people describing their experiences keeping dog teams as well as proper maintenance of the team, according to the conference agenda. The conference runs until Thursday.
QIA has used funding provided through the federal government’s formal apology and acknowledgment of the Qikiqtani Truth Commission’s findings in its 2019 report to establish this programming.
The qimmiit revitalization program allows people involved in qimmiqaniq practices to pass on their knowledge to others.
On Nov. 1, QIA announced the Qikiqtani Qimuksiqitiit Program will be permanent, to assist Qikiqtani Inuit with the maintenance of their dog teams. It ran previously as a three-year pilot project.
What a good noble plan, caring and maintaining a dog team, now if we only had a couple of Inuit vets that could travel around and give them vacs, and neuter and spay these prized animals
Neutering and spaying your dog team is a really quick way to end with no dogs. Unless you erroneously assume that the dogs will live forever
Northern guy , if you even live in Nunavut, look around you. There is no way spaying dogs will end a breed, and we have a dog problem in the north.too many litters not enough people, if you go to the dumps you will see, another keyboard warrior
Sled dog teams need new dogs to replace older dogs and dogs who have become too sick or injured to carry on working. How exactly would you do that if you spay and neuter your team genius …. immaculate conception?
Or, you know, vets of any ethnicity, Inuit or not.
So, to those of you out there who love animals graduate high school, get yourself a Bach. of Science, and then go get a DVM and then get back to us in a decade or so.
Nunavut dog problem is like a third world country dog problem. If people can’t care for 1 dog or their own kids what makes you think they can care for an entire dog team?