Two friends who started a reconciliation project around seals and sealing say they want to continue to expand their initiative and show how reconciliation can be about building positive relationships, not sowing division. “We’re not just talking about reconciliation, we’re doing reconciliation and mixing our cultures,” Menge said. It’s positive for their self esteem.”The project is also providing seal skins to Isaruit, an Inuit arts organization in Ottawa, so Inuit can do and learn traditional crafts. Lingering impact of EU seal ban campaignThe EU seal ban had a devastating impact on Inuit hunters in Canada, Greenland and other Indigenous Peoples around the world, as well as on seal hunters elsewhere in Canada. From the archives - preparing seal skins in Nunavut .... An instructor at Nunavut Arctic College in the community of Qikiqtarjuaq shows how seal skins are prepared in this video from the Eye on the Arctic archives….

Source: CBC News October 20, 2022 20:57 UTC