Finest 175
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Before contact with the Western world, the Inuit were a nomadic people, living as hunters who set up only temporary homes before moving on to their next site. Thanks to their innovative skills in not only hunting, but also building igloos and fashioning warm coats, they thrived in places that many would describe as uninhabitable and created a unique and resilient culture that lasted for centuries.
But the white population of Canada that eventually began to encroach upon the Inuit didn't understand their lifestyle — and wanted to make them more "modern." They also wanted to exert more control over the Arctic region that these Indigenous people called home. And so in the 1950s, the Canadian government forcibly relocated the Inuit, forcing them off their lands, slaughtering their sled dogs, and pushing their children into "assimilation" schools — from which many kids never came back. The Inuit and their way of life were never the same again.
But the white population of Canada that eventually began to encroach upon the Inuit didn't understand their lifestyle — and wanted to make them more "modern." They also wanted to exert more control over the Arctic region that these Indigenous people called home. And so in the 1950s, the Canadian government forcibly relocated the Inuit, forcing them off their lands, slaughtering their sled dogs, and pushing their children into "assimilation" schools — from which many kids never came back. The Inuit and their way of life were never the same again.