99-year-old Inuk Elder Qapik Attagutsiak

99-year-old Inuk Elder honoured by Parks Canada

Inuk Elder Qapik Attagutsiak, 99, along with other Nunavut Inuit were recently honored for their contributions as Hometown Heroes by the Government of Canada. Attagutsiak played a vital role during WWII by voluntarily gathering animal bones and carcasses, which were then shipped to southern Canada to be made into munitions,…