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More than a number: a daughter’s search for her Inuit grandmother identified only by digits on a disc under Canada’s Eskimo Identification system

Norma Dunning explores the impact of the Eskimo Disk System in her book, Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother.

Author Norma Dunning, on why she wrote Kinauvit?: What's Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter's Search fro her Grandmother: 'I wrote Kinauvit? to inform all of Canada and beyond. We, the Inuit, we are still here and we have always been more than a number.'Image courtesy of Douglas and McIntyre

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BY NORMA DUNNING

May 8, 2023

What I found most often was that non-Inuit equated the Eskimo Identification Canada system to their own social insurance number or a driver’s licence number, and spoke as though the system was not anything to get upset over. However, it is so very common for the dominant m...

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