Susan Salluviniq – Her Story

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In 1955, at the age of one year old, Susan was relocated from Pond Inlet to Resolute Bay with her family.

It wasn’t until later on that we started going through healing. And it was painful, that relocation was painful. Seems like pretty well every family member that had been relocated is separated all over. Of course we miss our siblings, but I’m very happy to say that this is slowly starting to change in our community. People are now finding out about their relatives.”

“Everybody is affected, that was relocated, every single part of the family is affected. I’ve seen that. It even goes to their grandchildren, like you’ll see the anger that came from the grandfather. Like it affect everybody. There’s been a lot of pain and it affects everyone.”

Susan Salluviniq – Resolute Bay, 2012