Akia (the other side) of Ilinnarvik (school) and the Inuit University Student

• Author / Creator

  Norma J. Dunning

• This study examines the intricacies of southern resident Inuit post-secondary student life
  in relation to education and the funding stream made available to them. The Inuit students are all
  beneficiaries of land claims areas but are not residing inside the land claims area that recognizes
  them as such. The post-secondary funding stream is used as a catalyst, the agent that demands
  action from the Inuit students which in turn creates a series of resultant events. Among these
  events is how Inuit in the south are perceived by the mainstream populations and the effects that
  the perception has on Inuit identity.
  
  Not only are post-secondary students involved in examining their educational process,
  my study also examines how the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement was created through the
  experience of lawyer, John Merritt. Merritt has stayed with the Nunavut Land Claims
  Agreement before it was birthed onto the nation of Canada and throughout its implementation.
  Jason LeBlanc, is a southern Inuit service provider and Executive Director of Ottawa
  Tungasuvvingat Inuit. He brings to light the effects that the northern land claims agreements
  have on the burgeoning southern Inuit population. He also focuses attention on the constraints of
  Canadian political processes that infringe on the supports that can be accessed.
  Heather Igloliorte, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal shares some of the
  harsh realities of being an Inuk academic inside of what should be the most apolitical space in
  Canada.
  This study also contains the dilemmas of two Inuit post-secondary students who are
  currently unable to complete their university education and the policy that surrounds their
  circumstances.
  This is Akia, the other side of Ilinniarvik (school) and the southern Inuit post-secondary
  student.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • nonresident Inuit identity
  • post-secondary funding stream

• Graduation date

  Fall 2019

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Doctor of Philosophy

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-67h2-jz42

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