Laisa Audlaluk Watsko – Her Story

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Laisa was born in Grise Fiord. She is the daughter of Larry and Annie Audlaluk. Larry was a small boy when he was relocated from Inukjuak to Grise Fiord with his parents; Mary and Paddy Aqiatusuk and his siblings in 1953.

“But I think we should have more healing and circles to continue to tell all the stories that were, that needed to be told or still need to come out because I know there is. I know my generation, the move back down in 1988 after I started to feel emptiness if you will, it happened all over again, like for my generation. I felt for those brothers who are still there, who have moved back with my uncles and aunts but they are… they’ve become… they became foreigners down there, like it wasn’t their upbringing.”

Laisa Audlaluk Watsko – Grise Fiord, 2012