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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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