Inmy native homeland of Canada, there are about 70,000 Inuit, with thousands more living in Greenland and Alaska and a few in Russia.
Prior to moving to the United States when I was a child, I had spent time living in cities such as Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, exploring the fascinating communities within and learning about the history of these lands. While I had not yet learned about my mother’s Inuit heritage when we left Canada, I had already taken Shotokan Karate classes and studied some Japanese from a book I picked up at the library.