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through Federal Day School and the territorial education system. He frequently emphasized the challenges of being educated in this “system foreign to his own society ” (his own words), and yet he became a skilled interpreter who was involved with numerous community and research pro-jects over the ye...
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| Summary: | through Federal Day School and the territorial education system. He frequently emphasized the challenges of being educated in this “system foreign to his own society ” (his own words), and yet he became a skilled interpreter who was involved with numerous community and research pro-jects over the years. He worked at various times for the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, had an ongoing contract as interpreter and translator with the Hamlet of Pangnirtung, and established his own business, Joamie Communications and Consulting. Eric was also the Pangnirtung community researcher for our International Polar Year (IPY) Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (ISIUOP). Eric dedicated countless hours to our siku (sea ice) pro-ject (2004 – 11), playing a key facilitating role in all local research activities, interpreting for local meetings and interviews, helping to develop and edit a local sea ice dic-tionary, and contributing to ISIUOP publications (Laidler et al., 2008, 2010, 2011; Pearce et al., 2009), presentations, and outreach |
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