INUIT AWARENESS DAY

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Inuit Awareness Day - This 60 minute Inuit Drum Dance session features Aalpi Kumarluk Sheldon. He is a 16 year old Inuit Drum Dancer who presents Inuit culture/history and co-facilitates the Sailliqatiginiq Inuit youth group with Tungasuvvingat Inuit, and an Inuit youth group with his mother, Tauni Sheldon, for the Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child & Family Services. Join us to learn more about Inuit history and culture from this youth leader!

Inuit Knowledge Keeper Tauni Sheldon

Tauni was born to her Inuit parents from Nunavik however, taken at birth as a Sixties Scoop baby. She was raised by her qallunat parents in Milton, Ontario. Tauni has spent her lifetime reconnecting with her biological family, while growing up in the "south". She became the first female Inuit pilot, having flown in the Arctic for Air Inuit Ltd.; and has worked with federally incarcerated Inuit and Aboriginal men. Currently she works in a social capacity for all Inuit, and shares her Inuit culture. Tauni and her son embrace the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit way of learning, and is reconciling her Inuit Rites of Passage