I was born in an igloo lived in an igloo for the first 11 years of my life until I was taken by the church and the Canadian government to go to residential school my name is Peter ethnic I come from now yet known as repulse Bay for a time I was living on the land with my parents for the first eleven years of my life I live with my parents and my sister and my brother-in-law hunting and fishing and surviving from the land we would close ourselves with caribou skins and seal skins which were sewn sewn by my mother and my sister Inuit are a hunting society being out in the land is very healing we are happy people we are very resilient people as well what I like about being in yoga is that we are extremely adaptable people 1975 was when I was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories it was moving from igloo to the legislature only 15 years before I was still living in an igloo and now here I am in the world of the white man being a member of the Legislative Assembly and became a minister in the government of the end of a YouTube we wanted to have more say as Inuit about what was taking place in in the Arctic at that time we have always looked after the Arctic since time immemorial we wanted to make sure it was written in law that we wanted the Canadian government to recognize the that we wanted to have more say of how things were done in the Artic it took us 29 years to negotiate creation of Nunavut and creation of Nunavut meant that we would establish our own government we would call the new territory Nunavut which means our land in our Inuit language our children and their children would have a territory of their own and they too can decide their own future their own destiny we benefit from tourists coming into the community buying local goods such as carvings inuit at the community level are benefitting from the fact that we are promoting our own culture to the newcomers the more communities you visit you get an opportunity to learn about Inuit to see a land that is different from yours you get an opportunity to see tundra to see inuksuk you get an opportunity to see in which in their own homeland the kind of animals that we hunt that we eat that we close close ourselves from you have an opportunity to visit Inuit homeland the way it used to be the way it is today and the way it's going to be in the future so you will have a lasting memory of your visit with you anyway [Music] you