Exile
Overview
Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec. The goal of the move was to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. As a result, Inuit people were forced to endure the pain of families torn apart and many years of hardship. With devastating first-person accounts of survival, the trail of broken promises and shameful practices of the government and the RCMP, this powerful documentary captures the long-standing effects of these events from the perspectives of the people who were forced to endure them.
Release date
01/01/2009
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Herd: Inuit Voices on Caribou
The Hunters
Between Two Worlds
Labrador North
Pictures Out Of My Life
Nanook of the North
How to Build an Igloo
Kaali Goes for Seal Hunting
What Belongs to Inuit
Urban Inuk
Qipisa
Nanook Revisited
Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North
Tuktu and the Trials of Strength
Children of the Arctic
Twice Colonized
We See Changes
Kamik
Those Who Come, Will Hear
Tough Old Broads