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[Phillip E Cash Cash]

NEWS: Around the Arctic June 11, 2012 - 10:00 am

Three Inuit among NAHO’s last batch of aboriginal role models
Jesse Apsaktaun, Dina Koonoo and David Dupuis are among the 2012 role models

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Hard worker, motivated, honest: that’s how the National Aboriginal Health
Organization describes the 2012 aboriginal role model, Jesse Apsaktaun, 28,
of Kugaaruk.

Born and raised in Kugaaruk, Apsaktaun graduated from the Nunavut Teacher
Education Program, and, according to a NAHO biography,  “has not let
anything hold him back.”

Apsaktaun, who now works as an adult educator at Nunavut Arctic College,
also finds time to sit on committees for various cultural activities, such
as teaching people how to build kayaks.

And Apsaktaun volunteers as a minor hockey coach, serves as chairman of the
youth committee and “takes his role as husband and father to heart,” NAHO
says.

A fluent speaker of Inuktitut, Apsaktaun is “a strong advocate for Inuit
languages and takes the time to teach those who want to learn,” working
closely with elders and youth.

Access full article below:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674three_inuit_among_nahos_last_batch_of_aboriginal_role_models/
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