Alternative to the West Coast rainforest: Anyone here ever driven the Dempster highway all the way to Tuktoyatuk?

New book documents harms — and resistance — at Northern residential schools
A new book, By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik by Crystal Gail Fraser, documents the harms done by Northern residential schools while also highlighting the ways children resisted.  
#school #resistance #book #Indigenous #Northern #Inuvik #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/book-northern-residential-schools-1.7413202?cmp=rss

'More than 1,000 of the dogs that Inuit relied on for their livelihoods were shot to death by Mounties, employees of the Hudson's Bay Company and other authorities during the mid-1950s and late 1960s across Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec.'

Ottawa to compensate Inuit in Nunavik for mass sled dog slaughter | CBC

#animals #dogs #inuit #inuvik #quebec #canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nunavik-sled-dog-slaugher-federal-compensation-1.7384345

It was over 34-fucking-degrees Celsius in Inuvik this week.

That's insane.

For those unfamiliar with Canadian geography, Inuvik is 200km from the Arctic Circle. (And that's 200km *north* of it.)

(If you've watched *The Terror* season 1, it's the same latitude as where they get stuck.)

Inuvik summer temps are typically in the teens.

10 years ago the high for August was around 20 °C, although it did hit 25 °C in August 1974.

#Inuvik is located 200km North of the Arctic Circle. Today it hit 93.2°F. This all time record high temperate was made 5X more likely because of the #ClimateCrisis.