Human Flagpoles

In August 1953, federal officials took 34 Inuit from Port Harrison (now known as Inukjuak) in Hudson Bay and put them on a boat north. One month and 1,390 miles later, the group was split in two and deposited on two remote islands. The Inuit found it hard to survive in an unfamiliar, freezing world with few of the foods they were used to and no schools, stores or churches. As years went by, the anguish caused by the relocation triggered major social problems. "I was very angry. I was hurt inside. You can say like father, like son. Some of my kids were angry too. The hurt my parents suffered was passed on to me. I grew up being a very angry man, an alcoholic," said Allie Salluviniq, who was a boy of 3 at the time of the move. http://www.newsone.ca/piercelandherald/stories/news-00178705.html

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