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Amaujaq Kusugak, Jose.
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Kusugak, Jose, 1950-2011 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
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Amaujaq Kusugak, Jose.
Kusugak, Jose, 1950-2011 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Juvenile literature.
Residential schools -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Abuse of -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Education -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Education -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Canada -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Cultural assimilation -- Juvenile literature.
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/ by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak ; illustrated by Hwei Lim.
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Amaujaq Kusugak, Jose.
Qinuisaarniq, an imprint of Inhabit Education Books Inc., c2020.
Call #:
371.8299712 A489o
Subjects
Kusugak, Jose, 1950-2011 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Juvenile literature.
Residential schools -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Abuse of -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Education -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Education -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Canada -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- Juvenile literature.
Inuit -- Cultural assimilation -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781774502037 (pbk.)
Description:
56 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Qinuisaarniq (“resiliency”) is a program created to educate Nunavummiut about the history and impacts of residential schools, policies of assimilation, and other colonial acts that have affected the Canadian Arctic.
Previously published as a chapter in: Response, responsibility and renewal : Canada's truth and reconciliation journey / edited for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation by Gregory Younging, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné. Ottawa : Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2009.
Summary:
Jose Amaujaq Kusugak had a typical Arctic childhood, growing up playing games, enjoying food caught by hunters, and watching his mother preparing skins. But he was one of the first generation of Inuit children who were taken from their homes and communities and sent to live in residential schools. In this moving and candid memoir, Jose tells of his experiences at residential school and the lifelong effects it had on him. Kusugak was a teacher, historian, and leader. He was president of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated from 1994 to 2000 and was elected president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in 2000. He died in 2011 in Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet).
Audience:
Ages 12+
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Qinuisaarniq.
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