A 2010 report from found Quebec provincial police officers killed more than 1,000 dogs in Nunavik ‘without any consideration for their importance to Inuit families’
Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Oct. 3.The federal government is providing $45 million in compensation to Inuit in Nunavik as part of Canada’s apology for its role in the killing of sled dogs between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s.
“I’m hoping for some of them that it will bring closure,” said Pita Aatami, the president of Makivvik which represents Inuit in Nunavik. He said the money will go toward revitalizing the culture of dog team ownership in the region, and “all the things people need to raise dog teams.” That includes training, food and fencing.
“Whenever there was alcohol in the community, they turned to alcohol to numb the pain that they were going through because they had their livelihood taken away. Their independence was taken away.” “The problem arose after the imposition of mandatory schooling and the sedentarization of a population that was not ready for it,” Croteau wrote.Because attendance was mandatory, and because Inuit then never allowed themselves to be separated from their children, “Inuit families were in a hurry to settle in villages, bringing their dogs with them in order to ensure their livelihood and transportation,” Croteau wrote.
“Never before, that is to say, not since time immemorial, had outsiders attempted to exert control over the dogs, which seemed so strict to members of the community.
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