Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree has formally apologized to Inuit in Nunavik for the federal government's role in the mass killing of sled dogs in the region in the 1950s ...
a period in the 1950s and 1960s when police officers and other authorities killed over 1,000 qimmit [sled dogs] in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec. One of the stories that haunts him ...
Hughes took part in the Inuit community’s annual ice fishing ... pulling his grandson in a qamutik, or sled, packed with supplies for a family camping trip. Despite being ill and frail ...
He hitched the remaining dog to the sled and rode off to rejoin his family. The Inuit adapted to one of the sparsest eco-systems on earth and their connection to land and wildlife was intensely ...
Historically, Inuit in Canada had relatively low suicide ... Person on a qamutiik (sled) being pulled by qimmiit (sled dogs). Annie Nulukie believes any programs which help connect people to ...
Sled dogs nap outside in the early gloaming ... descended from animals that traveled with the Inuit when they began their journey from Siberia to Greenland a millennium ago.