The High Arctic relocation[a] took place during the Cold War in the 1950s, when 92 Inuit were moved by the Government of Canada under Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to the High Arctic.[2][3]
The forced migration is widely considered to have been implemented by the Canadian government to assert its sovereignty in the Arctic Archipelago (which has been subject to disputed territorial claims) by the use of "human flagpoles".[4] The relocated Inuit suffered extreme privation during their first years after the move.
- ^ Makkik, Romani (Fall 2009). "The High Arctic Relocations" (PDF). Naniiliqpita. pp. 7–11.
- ^ Dussault, René; Erasmus, George (1994). The High Arctic Relocation: A Report on the 1953–55 Relocation (PDF) (Report). Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. ISBN 0-660-15544-3.
- ^ Porteous, J. Douglas; Smith, Sandra E (2001). Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-0-7735-2258-9.
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