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88 at odds with their elden and laCk confidence in themselves. They no longer know what they are and IOJpe of them are likely to quit the land in the near future. celt is the cleverest, those who have done the best at school, who will go away. Our hunting economy, which depends on team effort, will be disrupted and further impoverished. The schools cream off the best of our youth. ‘.As technicians they, will only find work away from our territor~’ in the South which is a foreign country to us Eskimos.

Only the least intelligent ones will stay with us. They don’~ learn how to hunt Qr to handle a liayak (native skin boat) in boarding school which also robs them of the opportunity to get practical instruction and experience from their fathers anCl elders in hunting. They won’t be able to make a living from hunting.

We Eskimos don’t even own the land on which we have been living for’ centuries. What will life be like when oil and

minerals are found beneath our soil. WhOle will it be?”

Some Eskimos are leaving their communities and educated Eskimos, scarcely representative of the community’. confwed aspirations, are betraying their origins and seeking rapid assimilation into white society. Drunkenness and tooth-decay are on the increase (few Easkimos do not need false denturel by age 40). They are increasingly subject to eye disorden and their resistance to cold has diminished as a result of consuming unsuitable foods (white flour, white sugar, jams, tea, , .obacco, etc.).¹

As a result of the virulent white imperialism of the last century and its present consequences, the face of the earth has been radically transformed, indigenous