This semester I studied Inuit Culture, their history, and the many threats to their culture that they have survived. Reading the book, The Right To Be Cold by Sheila Watt Cloutier, I learned about her journey into fighting climate change and politics. She also talked about her time in the Canadian residential schools, which inspired me to research more about it. I learned that these schools were a part of a plan by the Canadian government to assimilate the children into southern society and eventually eliminate their culture. Another attempt was in the 1950s when RCMP officers were sent to kill all the sled dogs which would force Inuit living in rural areas to move into towns. Sled dog were a huge part of the culture and greatly affected the entire community negatively. I learned a little about climate change this semester how the melting sea ice causes a chain of effects that threatens the Inuit culture, and how oil drilling could destroy the ecosystem and that would bring an end to this culture. I made an infographic about these things and then I wrote a paper about the same topics but more in depth.
So far this year I've watched and taken notes on a documentary called On Thin Ice, read and taken notes on part of the first chapter of a book called The Right to be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier and read and taken notes on part of a textbook called through indian eyes .