{"id":1617,"date":"2013-11-02T03:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqqaumavara.com\/en\/?page_id=1617"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:22:30","slug":"georges-echalook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/georges-echalook\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges Echalook &#8211; His Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55559588\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Georges_Echalook.jpg\" alt=\"Georges_Echalook\" width=\"529\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Georges_Echalook.jpg 529w, https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Georges_Echalook-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55559588\">Play Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66334604\">Part 2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66334603\">Part 3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Georges-Echalook_TOTALE_19JUIN2013_VA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>In 1955, at the age of eleven, Georges was relocated from Inukjuak to Resolute Bay with his parents; Joanie Echalook and Minnie Allakariallak and his siblings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote >\n<p class=\"qp\">\n<p>Those who were already there, asked us, like my eldest sister and John Amagoalik\u2026 They asked us: \u00abDoes it feel like you stepped onto the moon?\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>I also remember the members of the first group, who arrived in 1953, they were crying because they expected to board the ship. Their two years were up and they expected that we arrived to relieve them. They had packed to leave and were lobbying the RCMP. They were ready to board the CD Howe and go back. That\u2019s probably why I remember them crying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>Georges Echalook &#8211; Iqaluit, 2011<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Download the transcript In 1955, at the age of eleven, Georges was relocated from Inukjuak to Resolute Bay with his parents; Joanie Echalook and Minnie Allakariallak and his siblings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2YleB-q5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqqaumavara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}