Inuit relocations : colonial policies and practices, Inuit resilience and resistance / Frank James Tester and Krista Ulujuk Zawadski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION -- MAP OF INUIT NUNANGAT -- LIFE ON THE LAND. The Way Things Used To Be ; Whalers Arrive in the Eastern Arctic ; Trading with the Hudson's Bay Company ; Pingungnuq: Winds Of Change. HIGH ARCTIC RELOCATIONS. Inukjuak Was Home -- Ihe Government Says Move ; The Long Trip to the High Arctic ; Left in Resolute Bay ; Life in Grise Fiord ; The Government Apologizes ; High Arctic Communities Today -- PUVAGLUNGNAQTUQ (TUBERCULOSIS): EXILED FOR A CURE. Early Health Care in the North ; Testing for TB ; Going South for Treatment ; Life and Death in Another World ; Difficult Return Home ; Canada Apologizes ; Since the Apology -- LEAVING FOR SCHOOL. Before Government Schools ; Federal Day Schools ; "Experimental E******" ; Apology by Ottawa ; After the Apology -- RELOCATING TO SETTLEMENTS, 1955-1968. Why Move to Settlements? ; Making the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line ; Going Underground: The North Rankin Nickel Mine ; Trapped: The Killing of Arctic Sled Dogs ; Settlement Housing and Health ; Social Housing and Social Change -- ABANDONED AND MISLED. The Ahiarmiut Are Moved from Ennadai Lake ; Starvation at Garry Lake ; Goodbye Kivitoo, Paallavvik (Padloping) and South Camp ; Leaving Hebron -- DEALING WITH COLONIALISM. Developing an Inuit Economy ; Strengthening Inuit Voices ; Promoting Inuit Culture ; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation -- Timeline -- Glossary -- For Further Reading.

In a highly visual and appealing format for young readers, this book explores the many forced relocation of Inuit families and communities in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s to the 1990s. Governments promoted and forced relocation based on misinformation and racist attitudes. These actions changed Inuit lives forever. This book documents the Inuit experience and the resilience and strength they displayed in the face of these measures. Years afterwards, there have been multiple apologies by the Canadian government for its actions, and some measure of restitution for the harms caused. Included in the book are accounts of a community forced to move to the High Arctic where they found themselves with little food and almost no shelter, of children suddenly taken away from their families and communities to be transported to hospitals for treatment for tuberculosis, and of the notorious slaughter by RCMP officers of hundreds of sled dogs in Arctic settlements. Though apologies have been made, Inuit in northern Canada still face conditions of inadequate housing, schools that fail to teach their language, and epidemics of infectious diseases like TB. Yet still, the Inuit have achieved a measure of self-government, control over resource development, while they enrich cultural life through music, film, art and literature. This book enables readers to understand the colonialism and racism that remain embedded in Canadian society today, and the successful resistance of Inuit to assimilation and loss of cultural identity.