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ᓇᓃᓕᖅᐱᑕ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᐃᑦ ᐊᐅᔭᖅ 20011 - Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.

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For now, we listen<br />

Ublumi, naalaktugut<br />

ᒫᓐᓇ, ᓈᓚᓪᓗᑕ<br />

ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᒐᖓ ᐄᓇ ᐊᓕᕙᖅᑕᖅ / Photo by Eena Alivaktuk / Piksaliuktaa Eena Alivaktuk<br />

ᕕᓕ ᔫ ᕚᓐᔅ (ᑕᓕᖅᐱᐊᓃᑦᑐᖅ) ᐅᖃᖃᑎᓕᒃ ᐃᓐᓇᕐᒥᒃ ᐊᐅᕘᑕᐅᑉ ᐅᐊᖕᓈᓃᓐᖔᖅᑐᒥᒃ ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ<br />

ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐊᖅᑎᑕᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥᓂᕐᓄᑦ ᓱᓕᔪᒥᒃ ᑭᒡᓕᓯᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᐊᓂᒍᐃᑎᑦᓯᕙᓪᓕᐊᓂᕐᒧᓪᓗ ᐃᓅᕕᖕᒥ.<br />

BJ Barnes (right) chatted with an Elder from Northern Alberta during the TRC event in Inuvik.<br />

BJ Barnes (talikpimi) ukakatigiyuk Inutukamik Ukiuktaktumi Albertamit katimatitlugit<br />

TRCkut Inuvikmi.<br />

The residential school legacy is still relatively unknown and there is little understanding<br />

of what happened to Aboriginal children at residential school.<br />

Ilihakgiaktukhimayut ilihakviit kingulikaktut<br />

naluyuayumik ovalo mikiyumik<br />

kangikhiyauhimayut hulihimayut<br />

Nunakakaakhimayut nutagait ilihakviini.<br />

ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐊᖅᑎᑕᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ<br />

ᐅᓪᓗᒥᒧᑦ ᓱᓕ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᓗᐊᖏᑦᑐᖅ<br />

ᑐᑭᓯᐅᒪᔭᐅᓗᐊᕐᓇᑎᓪᓗ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ<br />

ᓱᕈᓰᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐊᖅᑎᑕᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ.<br />

TITIGAKTAA: BJ BARNES<br />

Bj Barnes Havaktuk <strong>Nunavut</strong> <strong>Tunngavik</strong>uni Inuit<br />

Ilihagiaktukhimayut Ikayuktiit.<br />

Puigukhimaitunga 12mik ukiukaktitlunga apaapaga angilihimayut<br />

ilakatigiit CBCmik kungianiaktut, taimaa nukaga ovalo ovanga inuulgamiuvalaaganuk<br />

kungialaitugut ilaa, ukakmata nakuungitunik Inunik<br />

ovalo nutagait. Ikluanmungauhimayugut olapkiluta avaliitumik.<br />

Kinguani nalvaakhimayunga hanahimayutk Kanatamiut kungialiuktait<br />

mikiyumik Nunakakaakhimayut aknak tiguyauhimayuk ilakatiminit<br />

ovalo nunait ovalo akyaktaupluni ilihigiaktuguvikhainut.<br />

Akhuukhimayuk ilakatiminut ovalo nunait tamaat ilihaktitlugu.<br />

Ayokhakhimayuk ukpatainik, kagitainik ovalo ihuinaaktitauhimayuk<br />

ilihaktigiaktukhimatitlugu ovalo kimaakhimayuk ilakatiminut.<br />

Hamna hivuliuyuk tuhakhimayunga mikhaanut nutakat tiguyuahimayut<br />

ovalo autlakhimayuk ilakatiminit ilihakgiaktukluni. Kungiak-<br />

BY BJ BARNES<br />

BJ Barnes works as <strong>Nunavut</strong> <strong>Tunngavik</strong>’s Inuit<br />

Residential Schools Liaison.<br />

I remember being 12 years old when my father decided<br />

one family CBC movie night that my brother and I were<br />

too young to watch the movie because it was about bad<br />

people and children. We were sent to our rooms to entertain<br />

ourselves.<br />

I later found out it was a Canadian film about a little<br />

Aboriginal girl who was taken from her family and community<br />

and shipped to a residential school. She yearned<br />

for her family and community the whole time she was at<br />

school. She endured physical, mental and sexual abuse<br />

while at residential school and managed to flee to find<br />

her family. This was the first time I heard about children<br />

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