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Nunavummiut have long been clear; they want to see continued improvements in Nunavut education. It is essential to continue to develop and improve Nunavut education by learning from the past in examining what school programs can look like and how Inuit language, culture, and identity-centred bilingual school program can be developed and implemented in the creation of an Inuuqatigiit school. This unikkaaqatiginniq case study shares and documents community narratives on how Inuksuit School of Qikiqtarjuaq, NU, became an Inuuqatigiit school (1992 to 1999) and what the program looked like and how the Inuit language, culture, and identity-centred bilingual school program that was grounded in Inuit worldview and focused on the whole person, was developed and implemented. Key findings indicate the importance of community/Inuit control of community/Inuit education; Inuit worldview and identity-centred bilingual program focus; Inuuqatigiit School environment; majority Inuit staff/Elders and continual staff development; and parent, community, and Community Education Council direction of and engagement in education in supporting student success, whole-person development, and bilingualism.
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Inuit education, Nunavut education, Indigenous education, education change