By Kira Wronska Dorward Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Jane Flaherty-Lambe has had several incarnations in several communities throughout her life as a Nunavummiuq. Born and raised in Grise Fiord as the child of “human flagpoles” relocated from northern Quebec in 1955, she remembers the struggles inherent in her family’s situation. “A lot of people were struggling from being homesick, and I felt that with my parents,” she recalls. With 10 siblings, Flaherty-Lambe was adopted out to her grandmother because her mother, a residential school survivor, was too young to take care of so many young children. Flaherty-Lambe completed her own residential schooling in Iqaluit. “It was, a lot of times, lonely — wanting to be with our mother. Just being able to be home was too short. Just every Christmas…
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