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Podcast: Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Episode: Passing the Mic, Part 3 — A Foot in Two Worlds
Description: George Angohiatok grew up as among the last Inuit to live a fully traditional, nomadic life in the Canadian Arctic. As a child in Nunavut in the 1950s and 60s, he lived with his parents, siblings and grandparents on the land, seal hunting on sea ice in the winters, and returning to land to hunt game and fish in the warmer months. That all came to an end when George was sent to Residential School, and his family was forced by the government into the community of Cambridge Bay. Those days on the land deeply shaped who George is t...