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Northern Public Affairs Volume 5, Issue 2 July 2017 kamatsiagit ulugianattumi – Safe in a dangerous place ALEX SAUNDERS Nunavut Hitmakerz: Giving young Nunavummiut a voice THOR SIMONSEN & KELLY FRASER The partnerships, the productions and the people behind the lens NORMA KASSI, ET AL Qarmaapik House: A multi-use and safe place for families in Kangiqsualujjuaq INNOVATIONS MAGGIE EMUDLUK The pursuit of Inuit sovereignty in Greenland IN COMMUNITY RAUNA KUOKKANEN Walking on thin ice: HEALTH AND Entrepreneurship in Nunavik NATHAN COHEN- FOURNIER WELLNESS Healthy caribou herds mean healthy Northerners Profiling the eNuk program MONTE HUMMEL & EARL EVANS ALEXANDRA SAWATZKY, ET AL Reconciliation is an English word te(a)ch: Teaching code for youth empowerment and wellness JASON MERCREDI TAHA TABISH & RYAN OLIVER House of Commons about the need for a national hepatitis C strategy, book Project Jewel reviews, and more! SARAH ROGERS & FAITH RAYMOND Dji, Yemoon Oudjimaw, Dja-Nashkoom-midin, meen-baygow gabataniin dja-neebouyan ouda. Nawii-kakwedjimaw ou Tshaoudjamaw, nawii-kakweedjiimaw: Dji-Yemahaw a Anishnabawch? Dji-Kakwedjiimawch a Anishnabawch dan-aydaytagaw weeow niiou kay-iittit n’djeesh ka-djiishakaych? Tshaytiim a, dan-kayshingashoodaw na-djeech ka-weedjadaw ouda, Penoshway jeeshoungashouch? Thshaytiim a niou? — Romeo Saganash, MP for Abitibi – Baie James – Nunavik – Eeyou Oral Question to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons June 21, 2017 Northern Public Affairs July 2017 FEATURES LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 7 Innovations in Community Health & Wellness Gwen K. Healey OVERHEARD 9 ARTS & CULTURE kamatsiagit ulugianattumi – Safe in a dangerous place 15 Alex Saunders INNOVATIONS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS Profiling the eNuk program 18 Alexandra Sawatzky, Ashlee Cunsolo, Dan Gillis, Inez Shiwak, Charlie Flowers, Oliver Cook, Michele Wood, the Rigolet Inuit Community Government, & Dr. Sherilee L. Harper Nunavut Hitmakerz: Giving young Nunavummiut a voice 23 Thor Simonsen & Kelly Fraser The partnerships, the productions and the people behind the lens 26 Norma Kassi, Molly Pratt, Marilyn Van Bibber, Katelyn Friendship, Jody Butler Walker, Math’ieya Alatini Mary Jane Johnson, Roger Alfred, Eugene Alfred, Kluane First Nation Lands, Resources & Heritage Department, Kluane First Nation Youth and Elders, & the Vuntut Gwitchin Natural Resources Department te(a)ch: Teaching code for youth empowerment and wellness 33 Taha Tabish & Ryan Oliver Qarmaapik House: A multi-use and safe place for families in Kangiqsualujjuaq 37 Maggie Emudluk Project Jewel 41 Sarah Rogers & Faith Raymond ARTICLES The pursuit of Inuit sovereignty in Greenland 46 Reconciliation is an English word 58 Rauna Kuokkanen Jason Mercredi Walking on thin ice: Entrepreneurship in Nunavik 50 BOOK REVIEWS 63 Nathan Cohen-Fournier Healthy caribou herds mean healthy Northerners 54 Monte Hummel & Earl Evans This issue of Northern Public Affairswas made possible by the generous support of: Northern Public Affairs Volume 5, Issue 2 July 2017 Editorial Board Tim Argetsinger Sandra Inutiq Pitseolak Pfeifer Julia Christensen Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox Thierry Rodon Kirk Cameron Aviaq Johnston Jerald Sabin (Founding Editor) Paul Crowley Sheena Kennedy Dalseg (Found- Deborah Simmons Joshua Gladstone (Founding & ing & Co-Managing Editor) Kiri Staples Co-Managing Editor) Hayden King Valoree Walker Sean Guistini Rhiannon Klein Meagan Wohlberg (Online Editor) Gwen K. Healey Heather E. McGregor Managing Editor Sheena Kennedy Dalseg Thematic Editor Gwen K. Healey Features Editors Jerald Sabin Meagan Wohlberg Online Editor Meagan Wohlberg Books Editors Christian Allan Bertelsen Nick Leeson Layout & Copy Editing Joshua Laidlaw Alex Merrill Special Thanks Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, address, and daytime phone number via email to [email protected], or by mail to Northern Public Affairs, 57 Balsam St., Ottawa, ON, K1R 6W8. Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and may be published in any medium. All letters become property of Northern Public Affairs and will not be returned. Front image: Tracy Wolki and her daughter Chase Wolki on a hike and berry picking during Project Jewel’s August 2016 Family Camp. Photo credit: Faith Raymond VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2, July 15, 2017. NORTHERN PUBLIC AFFAIRS (ISSN 2291-9902) is published three times a year by Northern Public Affairs. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Visit www.northernpublicaffairs.ca. NORTHERN PUBLIC AFFAIRS IS A TRADEMARK OF NORTHERN PUBLIC AFFAIRS. COPYRIGHT © 2017 NORTHERN PUBLIC AFFAIRS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN CANADA. FEATURES LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Innovations in Community Health and Wellness Gwen K. Healey Candle ice blows into shore on Great Slave Lake, surrounding a boat used to check MeaganPhoto credit: Wohlberg fish nets at a moose hide tanning camp near Lutsel K’e, NWT. ur communities are beautiful, loving, creative In Project Jewel, we are introduced to a land- and resilient. Dominant narratives about the based wellness program that engages individuals in NorthO are often deficit-based. Such narratives paint land-based activities while learning to manage stress, Northern communities as dark, despairing, troubled grief and trauma, and to take care of emotional places. The deficit-based narrative builds on a com- health. In te(a)ch, we learn of a program for children munity of scholarship that, for decades, has painted and youth that uses computer science technology as Canada’s North as an unpleasant place that is either a medium for storytelling and self-exploration. Qa- unworthy of investment or in need of outside advo- rmaapik House shows us the power of a heart-cen- cacy. That is an unfair and one-sided depiction of tred approach to supporting and caring for families. our communities. There are traumas, poverty, and The eNuk project expands on millenia-old processes hardship, but there is also creativity, caring, wisdom, for monitoring the land to bring our role as stewards and wellbeing in greater amounts. of the land into the digital age. Nunavut Hitmakerz As Northerners, we are innovative; our view of explores how music, song, and lyrics breathe life into the world is unique. We have special relationships our stories and the way we tell them, and how mu- with the land, the animals, music, arts, and story- sic shifts the distribution of power by elevating other telling that do not get the attention they deserve voices. The Arctic Institute for Community-Based in contemporary literature about the North. The Research uses filmmaking to document knowledge in dominant narratives that highlight our deficits dis- the community, strengthen intergenerational relation- empower us. This issue of Northern Public Affairs was ships, and foster wellness among youth. motivated by a desire to showcase initiatives that To be innovative is to be experimental, creative, build on our strengths, contribute to wellbeing, and revolutionary, or modern. Sometimes the medium empower our communities across the North. of an intervention itself can be innovative, such as Northern Public Affairs, July 2017 7 Photo credit: MeaganPhoto credit: Wohlberg Tents at a moose hide tanning camp near Lutsel K'e, NWT. in the example of te(a)ch or eNuk. Other times, the Bringing these projects together into one place, intervention builds on well-established evidence and such as in this issue of the magazine, can not only is applied in an innovative way that challenges the help to raise awareness and highlight the import- service system to operate differently — such as in the ant work taking place in our communities but can example of Project Jewel and Qarmaapik House. In also contribute to pan-Northern collaboration and the information age, the use of multimedia is a mod- knowledge exchange. This is an opportunity to cre- ern and innovative way to share stories, song, and ate a space for collaboration, networking and part- experiences with a wider audience, as demonstrated nership-building across territories and regions. It is by Nunavut Hitmakerz and Arctic Institute of Com- critical for policy-makers and for communities and munity-Based Health Research film projects. organizations to have the opportunity to learn from A common thread among these projects is one another and to be inspired by each other’s work. that the youth, adults, and Elders who participate Mary Simon recently released a report on a feel better as a result, on a number of dimensions. Shared Arctic Leadership Model. In this model, nine They feel better about themselves, their capabili- principles of partnership were highlighted, one of ties, their relationship with the land, and their rela- which focused on how Northern leadership must be tionships with peers and others in the community. recognized and enabled to ensure community-based In the context of the on-going traumas and hard- and community-driven solutions. The projects that ships faced by members of our communities, these appear in this issue are examples of Northern lead- programs are essential. ership and the community-driven solutions Simon How can and should public policy and funding calls for. These six projects just scratch the surface models change to ensure that more of these projects of what is possible when Northerners take the lead. receive the support they deserve? Decision-makers Our collective Northern knowledge, approaches, and funders need to recognize our ability, our ca- and philosophies are brilliant. We work together, pabilities, our

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