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11/25/2006
8:58:24 am EST
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The Healing Power Of Huskies
Author: Marie Wadden Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
Title: THE HEALING POWER OF HUSKIES
A woman leans out the window of her house and shouts in Inuktitut. Children on their way to school turn and start running toward the harbour.
"There's a dog team coming back," one of the children calls out over her shoulder as she dashes for the harbour at Kangirsuk, a village of 400 Inuit in the eastern Arctic.
All eyes scan the vast expanse of white for something other than snow and ice. Race officials station themselves near the long string of colorful flags that mark the finish line. Tiny dark specks draw closer to the end of the 525-kilometre Ivakkak race that crossed from one end of the Nunavik region in northern Quebec to the other.
With astonishing speed, 12 dogs, spread out like a fan, rush toward the finish line, pulling a sled with two men on board.
These dogs are special and symbolic, a dozen of only 200 Inuit husky that carry on the bloodline after 20,000 were killed by Quebec police and the RCMP during the 1960s and `70s.
The police say the dogs were diseased. The Inuit have another explanation.
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
The same thing happened to many Native American tribes here in the States. To contol a people you figure out what their lifeblood is- and you destroy it.
For Native Americans, it was the Bison and the horse.
For the Iniut, it was the sled dog. Fashion and disease was often used as a cover up for destroying much upon which they depended. With the Horse, however, the reason at least, was more straightforward.
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