All former students from the Inuit Studies Program, Nunavut Arctic College, Iqaluit. This paper was presented at the Third International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS III) in Copenhagen, in 1998, as well as at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris and at the Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) at the University of Leiden.