{"id":660,"date":"2017-04-17T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/inuit-toc\/12-chemin\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:50:34","slug":"12-chemin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/inuit-toc\/12-chemin\/","title":{"rendered":"12 &#8211; Chemin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE PATH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The past tells us a story. The <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"I think that it was easier to convert the Inuit in Nunavik to Christianity and change their way of life than the Inuit of Nunavut. In Nunavik we\u2019re closer to the \u201cbig city\u201d, missionaries and others travel more easily to Kujjuaq and that area. Nunavut is even farther north, even colder, there were fewer missionaries and whites visiting that area. The Inuit of Nunavut have therefore retained more of their culture than in Nunavik, where we became more sedentary; traditional culture is not practiced as much. For example, it was easier for the Inuit of Nunavik to stop tattoo practices; women\u2019s traditional tattoo, small dots on the face, chin, forehead, cheeks.\">brutal transformations<\/a> of the First Peoples, from nomadic to sedentary, from self-sufficient to dependent, from prideful to shameful. Since this story is written in time, it can not be erased. It exists to remind us that the <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"I don\u2019t know what those people were thinking, taking Aboriginal children and bringing them to residential schools. They did that with Inuit too, not too long ago; these people are still alive today. Another example, there were children from Puvirnituq, they took them to a political school, so they would become politicians, but it didn\u2019t work. It was stupid; you can\u2019t do that, even if it's done with good intentions. The rationale is narrow-minded; they never thought that when these children would become adults, they would not necessarily like this job. The human race isn\u2019t so evolved; generally, it\u2019s cruel. Here\u2019s another example, the other day my boyfriend and I were at the park, it was one of the first days when it was nice and hot, there were many people at the park. There were also geese; I have great respect for animals. There was a child, about 3 or 4 years old. The parent probably never taught the child this respect, since the latter took a piece of wood and threw it at the goose. It made me so angry; I wanted to scold the child: \u201cHey! Don\u2019t do that to the animal!\u201d This cruelty is within us. Intimidation is part of the human race; there are some who perceive a nation as inferior, so they take advantage of these people. I say it very crudely, without nuances, but it\u2019s in some way how I see it. Probably at the time of residential schools, given their mentality, they perceived it as appropriate. Slavery also hits home. Even though we were not necessarily slaves, just to have treated human beings this way, to justify this treatment because they\u2019re not of the same mentality, it upsets me.\">settlement mentality<\/a> can destroy identities, nations, humans.<\/p>\n<p>A word must be said regarding the inability of this colonial mindset to foster a genuine convergence with the mindset of Others.<\/p>\n<p>This story built from bits of memory, shows us how resilient humans are. Even through loss and suffering, it is able to survive, rise up, restructure and be reborn. It is able to find its way.<\/p>\n<p>To represent all of reality\u2019s beauty and diversity, we stand at the cultures\u2019 junction; our current identity is situated here, within the entanglement of what is possible, within this wealth of <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"I am interracial. I am part white, my father is a francophone from Quebec, so I have both mentalities. I must adopt my Inuit mindset to be among Inuit, and when I\u2019m with my spouse and his friends, I adopt a Quebec mindset in order to be with them. If I act too much like an Inuit with Quebecers, I\u2019ll be offbeat, and the same goes for the opposite. I\u2019m really both, I have adopted both identities.\">miscegenation<\/a> inherent in a vibrant culture.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the Aboriginal Being [and art] is developing; it is interacting, open to the world and to exchanges, while remaining firmly rooted to its traditions. 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