Geela Sowdluapik

Geela Sowdluapik was born in 1936 in an outpost camp near Pangnirtung. Her testimony includes memories of relocation from her camp to the community of Pangnirtung in 1962. She remembers that it was a forceful and unprepared relocation. The RCMP plane landed and people were expected to get on the plane right away. Geela recalls that no housing was provided to her family right away. When they eventually got a house, the rent was low but it kept going up, even though they were told the rent would remain the same.