‘I want to go home’: Forced relocation impacts Sanikiluaq more than 50 years later – Nunatsiaq News
Apr 28, 2026
Former residents of Belcher Islands’ South Camp moved north in 1970s under federal coercion
Sometime in the spring of 1970, eight-year-old Jonasie Emikotailuk along with a dozen other kids was taken on a trip from one end of the Belcher Islands to the other.
The group, accompanied by several adults, didn’t have enough food or drinking water for the 70-kilometre journey.
