Hamlet of Cape Dorset: Project Number: CT-411-NT/32-NT
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kevin Barlow
Description
Description and evaluation of healing and training project which involved weekly talking circles for women and girls, workshops, individual counselling, and on-the-land camps. Sources of information include project files, Aboriginal Healing Foundation Process Evaluation Survey, key informant interviews with healing team and service providers, and documents and data collected by community support coordinator.
Critiques federal government's programs for the provision of housing, which authors argue failed to take into account Inuit culture, designed and built houses suited to needs in the South rather than the North, and set up housing authorities and community councils that were, in effect, run by Whites rather than by Inuit members.
General Assembly of Inuit gather and reflect on losses, changes, developments that have occurred during the four years since the last ICC (Inuit Circumpolar Conference).
Conference presentation by the former President of the National Inuit Youth Council advocates the creation of a separate government department for the Inuit.