Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

(1995)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1995

Runtime: 53 мин

Country: Canada

Director: Patricia V. Tassinari

Cast: Erna Buffie, Brian Dooley, George Hargrave, Jimmy Mark, Judith Merritt, Urutuq Ningiurluut, July Papatsie, Eva Pilurtuut, Paul Stewart

Plot

In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and assuring them they could return home after two years if things didn't work out. They would not see their ancestral lands for 30 years. Abandoned in flimsy tents, the Inuit were left to fend for themselves in the desolate settlements of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord, where the sea was nearly always frozen and darkness reigned for months on end.