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www-vice-com-3996		​The Little-Known History of How the Canadian Government Made Inuit Wear ‘Eskimo Tags’			.html	text/html	1356	112	76	The Little-Known History of How the Canadian Government Made Inuit Wear 'Eskimo Tags' The Little-Known History of How the Canadian Government Made Inuit Wear 'Eskimo Tags' For decades, Inuit had to wear numbered identification tags around their necks, mainly because white administrators couldn't pronounce their names. The 33-year-old Inuk woman from Kuujuuaq, Quebec, is referring to her Eskimo Identification Number, a long-forgotten government program that ran for decades in the North—all the way until the 1980s in some areas. "The Government of Canada has discontinued the use of the 'Eskimo' disk numbers completely. We tend to repress that, but our social issues stem from this repression; people have PTSD from being sent to residential schools, from wearing dog tags, and being just a number in their government's eyes." Throughout history, most Aboriginal people in Canada were identified by name; the Inuit were the only ones to be "tagged" in this way.	./cache/www-vice-com-3996.html	./txt/www-vice-com-3996.txt