Naujaat

Describes why the residents were awarded a second modern bowhead hunt and its benefits.

Nutritional surveys of women aged 15 to 44 from Repulse Bay and Pond Inlet.

Six programs are discussed: Take a Kid Trapping & Harvesting; Kugluktuk High School, School Cooking Club; Harvester Support Program; Project Nunavut and the Country Food Market; Kuujjuaq Greenhouse Project; and Personal Gardening. Includes description, date program began, benefits and challenges for each initiative.

File contains opening remarks by Peter Katuk(via a translator) regarding the situation for Inuit people in the Northwest Territories: the struggle for survival, his own birth in an igloo in 1921, how life is a learning experience, how the Inuit people have been left out of Canada, how the Cree and the Hudson Bay Company were condescending and bossy to the Inuit, an incident between his father and the RCMP who made his father relocate his home from Repulse Bay, the need to amend what Katuk describes as the defeat of Aboriginal people in Canada, how his people assisted southerners who came to th

Author use oral histories, traditional knowledge and place names as well as tools such as GPS to map the well-established trade routes connecting two Inuit settlements and important places across into contemporary geographical systems. Highlights the need to consider Inuit culture in terms of moving as a way of living.