Inuit Environmental Science: Land Survival and Culture for Innovative Inuit Futures

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 25
  In Roundtable Session: Language Revitalization, Land, and Sustainable Futures

Abstract

Inuit across the Nunangat are calling for an Inuit education to address language learning, strong environmental protections, and completion of their education (Berger, 2008; Simon, 2017). Life and Land are changing very quickly in the Arctic: the Inuit Environmental Science program, developed by the Land Survival and Culture team in the Kativik School Board centers Land and place and will equip Inuit youth with the cultural and academic competencies to meet these changes with the innovation, respect, advocacy and generosity that have been characteristic of Inuit peoples for millennia.

Authors

• Alexa Scully, Kativik School Board

• Jobie Epoo, Kativik School Board

• Sala Padlayat, Kativik School Board

• Jobie Kutchaka, Kativik School Board

• Charlie Nowkawalk, Kativik School Board