'Experimental Eskimos' tells story of attempt to assimilate Inuit kids in 1960s (fwd link)

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'Experimental Eskimos' tells story of attempt to assimilate Inuit kids in 1960s

By: Nelson Wyatt, The Canadian Press
Posted: 10/10/2010 12:02 PM | Comments: 10 | Last Modified: 10/10/2010 3:49 PM

MONTREAL - When federal bureaucrats plucked three smart young Inuit
boys from their families in the 1960s and sent them to high school in
the south, they probably had little idea that they would help
transform Canada.

But Peter Ittinuar, Zebedee Nungak and Eric Tagoona did just that,
making their mark in federal politics, gaining aboriginal rights and
negotiating landmark land claims treaties such as the James Bay
agreement and the creation of Nunavut.

Their education came with a steep price — the loss of their language
and culture as they were steeped in white culture living with families
in Ottawa, resulting in alienation from their families and friends
back home.

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