What I found most often was that non-Inuit equated the Eskimo Identification Canada system to their own social insurance number or a driver’s licence number, and spoke as though the system was not anything to get upset over. However, it is so very common for the dominant members of any one society to look upon the marginalized and choose not to recognize assimilation, or colonization, or the continued impacts of forced government policy as something to be upset over, simply because it does not effect them in any direct way. After all, the only one thing that Indigenous Canadians are good at is their continued complaining, and wanting to be paid out for policies from long ago.
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