By Kira Wronska Dorward, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Born in Naujaat in 1950, Jack Anawak can recall when Inuit were still in the hunting and gathering stage of our life. There were no houses, he said – just the church and Hudson’s Bay Company, which only sold supplies to the then-community of 200. “Everyone else who was in Naujaat were in igloo sod-huts or tents in the summertime,” he said. “They only survived by hunting and so we were like that until the (federal) government came along in 1963 and built what were called ‘matchboxes’.” Those matchboxes, as Anawak describes them, measured 16 ft. x 24 ft. “That was the first time that Inuit in Naujaat moved into houses,” he said. “Most of the people at the time…
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