Qinuisaarniq

Qinuisaarniq

Qinuisaarniq (“resiliency”) is a program created to educate Nunavummiut about the history and impacts of residential schools, policies of assimilation, and other colonial acts that have affected the Canadian Arctic. Each resource has been carefully written and reviewed to include level-appropriate opportunities for students to learn about colonial acts and policies that have affected Inuit. These acts and policies created long-lasting impacts on Inuit individuals and communities, which are still being felt today.

We also have free, downloadable teaching guides to accompany each book.

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Reflections from Them Days: A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut
$12.95
As told by Nellie WintersTranscribed and edited by Erica Obendorfer When Nellie Winters was 11 years old, she was sent...
Making a Whole Person: Traditional Inuit Education
$20.95
Written by Monica IttusardjuatIllustrated by Yong Ling Kang "Before schools were introduced to the Inuit, we were taught by our...
On the Side of the Angels
$12.95
Written by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak Illustrated by Hwei Lim “Then one day a ‘flyable’ took me away from our world...
Mangilaluk
$18.95
Written by Bernard Andreason Illustrated by Alan Gallo “Some children are born into the world and are home as soon as they...
The Scarf and the Butterfly
$21.95
Written by Monica Ittusardjuat Illustrated by Coco Apunnguaq Lynge and Scott Plumbe “There’s an opening above me, but it’s far, and I...