Puzzle piece of Inuit history’: Duo launches translation project of historic letters – Nunatsiaq News

by ahnationtalk on July 27, 202295 Views

Jul 27, 2022

Correspondence from the 1960s and 70s share what Inuit elders believed needed to be done to preserve Inuit culture

When Tagak Curley reads through the dozens of letters that Inuit elders wrote him in the 1960s and 70s, he says he’s moved by all the wisdom they contain.

“It’s an understatement to say how important they were to me,” said the well-known politician and activist, who lives in Rankin Inlet.

When Curley was in his 20s, he was worried that Inuit were beginning to lose their identity and language to colonialism, he said.

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