The Awareness Project: Inuit ‘I.D.’ system
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1 min readSep 2, 2017
Barry Pottle’s exhibition of 19 photos brings attention to the controversial Inuit I.D. system that ran 1944–1969 in Canada. Pottle is an Inuk artist from Nunatsiavut in Labrador.
The I.D. numbers were part of a federal program called the “Eskimo Identification Tag System.” Inuit people were forced to wear these I.D. numbers on tags so that the Canadian government could keep track of their population.
Read more about the exhibit here: https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/exhibition/barry-pottle-awareness-series/
Read more about the I.D. tag system here: https://acresofsnow.ca/canadas-mandatory-eskimo-identification-tags/
