Jack, Inuit
Jack Anawak grew up in Naujaat [Repulse Bay] in Nunavut. He was a member of the Nunavut legislature, an ambassador for circumpolar affairs and is currently an elementary school counsellor
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Click Here- Change is coming with a new generation (2:22)
- Death by suicide and grief and connections with colonialism and intergenerational trauma (4:10)
- If possible, keep doing things that you love (0:41)
- When my time comes I want to be buried in Nuajaat (1:03)
- Choosing community over treatment (1:45)
- "Nanilavut" (Let's Find Them): A program to find where loved ones who travelled south for care are buried (1:26)
- Imagine leaving your home and livelihood for 6 months (1:52)
- The cost and isolation of traveling for care is a burden (1:48)
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