Inuit who survived stints at various TB sanatoria as children and teenagers are spending three days in the city as they try to come to terms with what Justin Trudeau has called ‘a shameful chapter in our history’
Naudla Oshoweetok peered down from his wheelchair at a simple, flat marker in a Hamilton cemetery etched with two Inuit names, and realized he recognized one of them.
They are part of a larger group of Inuit spending three days in Hamilton this week trying to come to terms with an episode thatcalled, “a shameful chapter in our history” when he apologized for it in 2019. Now 80, Mr. Angutikjuak said through a translator on Monday that when he returned home to Clyde River, his new daughter “was very timid to towards him, didn’t recognize him.” He was away at the sanatorium for about two years. “It was quite difficult for him,” Susie Muckpa, the translator, explained., as well as the non-profit organizations SeeChange and the Ilisaqsivik Society.
Memories flooded back for some members of the group as they milled about near the cross. Several women hugged each other and cried quietly. Members of the group prayed, chatted in Inuktitut and looked through archival photos of the sanatorium.
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