Kinauvit? = What's your name? : the Eskimo disc system and a daughter's search for her grandmother / Dr. Norma Dunning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunning, Norma, author.

Contributor:

Xwi7xwa Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuit--Canada--History.

Inuit.

Inuit--Canada--Government relations.

Inuit--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Inuit--Government relations.

Inuit--Legal status, laws, etc.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 173 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

What's your name?

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, 2022.

Summary:

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System. In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: "What was your disc number?" Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon herself to reach out to Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand, providing vital perspective and nuance to the scant records available on the subject. Written with incisive detail and passion, Dunning provides readers with a comprehensive look into a bureaucracy sustained by the Canadian government for over thirty years, neglected by history books but with lasting echoes revealed in Dunning's intimate interviews with affected community members. Not one government has taken responsibility or apologized for the E-number system to date -- a symbol of the blatant dehumanizing treatment of the smallest Indigenous population in Canada. A necessary and timely offering, Kinauvit provides a critical record and response to a significant piece of Canadian history, collecting years of research, interviews."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Ilagiit (Family)

ch. 2 Tukihivit (Understand... do you?)

ch. 3 Akia (The other side)

Katimajut

They are meeting

ch. 4 a'nirnaqtuq (It hurts)

Tasitaqpuq

Begins to stretch, extend

Saattuq

Begins to face or put something in front of someone, accuses

Pigialirqipaa

Begins again

Sangugiaqpaa

He begins to change

Quaqsituq

Begins to freeze

Uirittuq

Begins to have habit of doing something that pleases

ch. 5 kinaugavit? (Can I get your name?)

Uqaliqtuqaqtuq

Speaks quickly, hurrying

ch. 6 Imngiqtuq (She sings)

ch. 7 iqqaumavit? (Doyou remember?)

Alan Voisey, Tikirarjuaq (Whale Cove), NU

David Serkoak, Ottawa, ON

Martha Hatkaitok, at Martha's home in Edmonton, AB

Zebedee Nungak, 204 Uriuq Kangirsuk, QC

ch. 8 Isummaniq (Can think, understand, has reached the age of reasoning)

Eskimo Identification Canada System Number versus Social Insurance Number

EICS versus the Pass System

EICS versus Holocaust Survivors' Tattoos

EICS versus the Numbering System of Indian Residential Schools

Eskimo Identification Canada System in Inuit Day Schools.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dunning, Norma. Kinauvit?

ISBN:

9781771623391

177162339X

OCLC:

1315582012