By Cedric Gallant Local Journalism Initiative Reporter After spending time in Montreal, Nova Scotia, the Gaspe Peninsula and even an Arctic expedition, Tukai Augiak is set to graduate Nunavik Sivunitsavut and wants to take what he’s learned back home to Kuujjuaq. Augiak, 19, is part of the seventh graduating class from the one-year program, based in Montreal, that offers an intensive curriculum on Inuit history, governance, language, politics and culture. “The program made me learn who I am, my identity as a person,” he said. Augiak has been involved in numerous programs from a young age that have taken him to various places throughout Canada. While attending high school in Kuujjuaq, he took part in Students on Ice, which offers expedition cruise trips to students from around the world. Augiak…
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