I Didn’t Learn This in School: a shocking part of Canadian history

The CRAM Podcast ~ Extraordinary Ideas Unleashed · Apr 6, 2023 · 46m

One of the fundamental questions of humans has been “who am I?”

To know our identity and where we came from has been a powerful driving force. And it was a force in Norma Dunning, a professor at the University of Alberta, to find out about her Inuit heritage that was never spoken about in her family.

Norma spent years doing research that revealed practices of a colonial system that had devastating consequences for her ancestors. One such practice was known as the Eskimo Disc System whose impact is still felt today.

Norma’s story highlights a little known part of Canadian history. In her…