2011, 68 minutes.
For more than a thousand years, the Inuit and their dogs were inseparable. For hunting, travel, fur and even food, the nomadic people depended on their dog teams for survival.
But when the nomadic lifestyle came to a sudden end, fifty years ago, things changed, and soon after there were nearly no dogs left alive. What happened?
It’s taken two generations to be able to ask this painful question, and to examine the near-extinction of the Canadian Inuit dogs. As a truth commission travels across the territory of Nunavut, anger, bitterness and fear resurface, and “objective” truth is elusive. But in the background, the dogs are staging their comeback.