Repulse Bay, Nunavut
In Naujat we love our land, we think the creation of Nunavut will help us to keep what we love, the way we like it, as our people have for centuries past. Inuit also believe our society model works best for us, a society with strong family ties, built on common ownership of the land and resources, a society built on respect for individuals, for tradition and for the knowledge of Elders. We wish to govern it's evolution.
Our society had no doorbells, no locks, no Police, no jails, no armies, no wars, no elections, they were not necessary. We hope the World will wonder how it was possible. If they ask, our Elders will share the knowledge and if they listen with their hearts, they may learn from the Inuit a better way for all the World to live.
Naujat existed for a 1000 years before Captain Christopher Middleton, who in 1742, discovered the hard way (apparently he didn't think of asking the people who lived here), it was a bay and not the route to his fame and fortune. He angrily called it "bay of Repulse, the bay where I was pushed away"..
Sometimes you must close your eyes to see. Had Captain Middleton not been blinded, he might have recognized Paradise. Breath taking, awe inspiring beauty, life in abundance, arctic char (the most delicious fish in existence) in every river, trout to catch in every crystal clear lake, and more lakes than you can count; seals, walrus, belugas, narwhales and bowheads from the bay, caribou, hare, foxes, wolves, polar bear from the land, this, and more, he could have seen. The people who are fun loving, independent, and self confident, would have invited him into their homes to meet their family and share their good fortune. Maybe he did Naujat a favor by hiding it's appeal from the world? Maybe the Inuit retain the name Repulse Bay on maps because they enjoy a good joke and Inuktitut is their first language anyway?
Nunavut means Inuit self Government, which literally means "POWER to the PEOPLE"
The foregoing was distilled from a months worth of discussion and written submissions by the Senior Class of Tusarvik School a.k.a: Kenny Kaurak, Rachael Suisangnark, Joseph Sivanertok, Noah Siutinuar, Norman Putulik, Rebecca Suisangnark, Louis Uttak, Linda Milortok, Leo Akkuordjuk and Allan Kringayark.