Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I would just love for the committee to understand, as Lori just said, that every community is different. Iqaluit especially is a very Eurocentric modern city compared to the rest of Nunavut. On top of that, with different dialects within the territories, people learn

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I believe that in Iqaluit specifically it's incredibly difficult to find that balance within Inuktitut traditional life and the Eurocentric life that comes with work or schooling and things like that. From a personal perspective, my family and I hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe lots of my peers have started thinking about their own self-actualization and their own identity, and there has been an uprising of practice in Inuit traditions and cultural activities, again to try to create that balance, especially in Eurocentric towns all across Nuna

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. That is a great question. Within Inuksuk High School, there are lots of staff or teachers who aren't Inuk and don't speak Inuktitut fluently, but even if they aren't Inuk, they still try to advocate for us to find that balance, because they also understand that their

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The NTEP, Nunavut teachers education program, is affiliated with the Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit, where they do learn to become Inuktitut educators. The thing with that is that NTEP is affiliated with an outside university to get that official Bachelor of Education. I would

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Chair, I would like it if that question can be rephrased.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That, I am not a hundred per cent sure on, but I believe there is a high capability.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. This just reminded me that there is actually a wraparound process, where I believe that at the age of 21 you are able to take high school courses within the Nunavut Arctic College, instead of being an adult walking into the high school. They can complete courses withi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It would be within the high school curriculum, so whatever is....

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Alongside either partnering with Pirurvik or Inhabit Media to have their resources within our curriculum.... I'm sorry. Chair, can the question be repeated, if that's okay?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. That was a better understanding. A great example of this would be both the Aulajaaqtut and Inuktitut classes. Like I mentioned before, there's not a huge requirement within an academic degree. The only “academic” class needed to graduate in Nunavut's system is a grade

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I personally know a couple of students within my high school who go to Iqaluit. It could be the option of their parents going there for work, and they then would go to school there. There is an inflow of students from smaller communities who go there for school. Yes, that is true

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. There are multiple resources available within Nunavut, but they are not officially in the curriculum. To give you a couple of examples, in 2007, Pirurvik created a program called “Tusaalanga”, which is a website where people can learn Inuktitut in a v

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I believe that the major block going forward with some of these past strategies is that a lot of them are short-term based. Most specifically many are premier-based. With Bill 37, the premier at the time was advocating for it incredibly well, and it

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is actually a great question. I believe the Inuit who have succeeded academically have an association with the curriculum that they're based in. They've adapted to the English curriculum incredibly well, to the point where they have a full understanding of their education a