Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation (1995)
Directed by Patricia Tassinari
Sub-Genres - Politics & Government, Race & Ethnicity, Social History |
Run Time - 52 min. |
Countries - Canada |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis
In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government relocated seven Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic. They were promised an abundance of game and fish - in short, a better life. The government assured the Inuit that if things didn't work out, they could return home after two years. Two years later, another 35 people joined them. It would be thirty years before any of them saw their ancestral lands again. Abandoned in flimsy tents, the Inuit were left to fend for themselves in t
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alcoholism, archival-footage, Canada, disease, government, hunger [food], indigenous-peoples, Inuit, poverty, promise, relocation, survivor
