Kinauvit?
What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Kinauvit?
What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother
About this book
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 and personal stories from an important voice in Canadian literature.
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Table of contents
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One: ilagiit (Family)
- Chapter Two: tukihivit (Understand… do you?)
- Chapter Three: akia (The other side)
- Chapter Four: a’nirnaqtuq (It hurts)
- Chapter Five: kinaugavit? (Can I get your name?)
- Chapter Six: imngiqtuq (She sings)
- Chapter Seven: iqqaumavit? (Do you remember?)
- Chapter Eight: isummaniq (Can think, understand, has reached the age of reasoning)
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Index