Ann Hansen 3

It's called Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. To me, we could try to answer that all our lives, because it means that we learn from the beginning to the end. Right from the beginning, we're always learning. Even right now, I am now adult and I'm still learning Inuktitut, so it's difficult to answer in one term, because the answers come from going through life. That's how I mean it to be IQ. When we say Inuit Qaujimajatuqangat, you feel like giving up when you hear it, because, the thought is "it's from way back." When we say Inuit Qaujimajangit, (things Inuit knows), they answer "oh..." - it's easier to talk about, it doesn't scare you. The younger generation gives up too easy. They have no confidence in themselves to learn, and sometimes I think about that when I think about Inuit Qaujimajangit. You have to know things in the past and things in the present and things in between. Is that understandable?

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