The former ambassador and prominent Inuk leader, who was installed at the country’s 30th Governor General on Monday, was born in one of the area’s tiny villages, Kangiqsualujjuaq, located on the east coast of Ungava Bay.
Popert said her sister learned some of her most profound and enduring lessons from the land, as she fondly recalled them picking berries together as children in the summertime. “It’s what the country needs right now,” he said, particularly in light of the recent discoveries of the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children who died attending residential schools across Canada.
Popert and Simon’s father, a white man who spoke Inuktitut, ran a Hudson Bay Company trading post, which is how he met their mother, an Inuk woman. The family moved around Nunavik when the children were young before settling on Kujjuak.
'character was tested, and perhaps forged, during those years at a government-run school where Indigenous children were forced to speak English... ' Her father was an Anglo, so doubtful that she had difficulty with English. And stop casting Inuit as victims. They deserve better.
Going to take a whole lot of smudging to clear that place
I wish her the greatest of success in representing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ❤
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