Some Answers

What kinds of music do the students listen to?
The students up here listen to basicly the same music that we do. Its strange hearing a song that you can understand the words fully, but when the show host starts talking in French or Inuktituk. The kids are especially into the modern music scene, and cultural music plays a lesser role. Recently a hip-hop craze has swept the community and actually had a positive effect on the community. This is because its given the kids of the community to do with their time, kept them out of trouble, and the kids even settle disputes with "dance-offs" or "challenges" as they are called.

How much has outside cultures influenced the people there?
The influence outside cultures have is immense. As stated above our music has infiltrated all levels of their society. And as with many other cultures that come into contact with the modern world, drugs and alcohol are new issues that their society must now deal with. Our outside cultures provide them with thier products, so its not uncommon to see Inuits with western brand names all over them. The concept of money and property rights have forced them to follow our laws and find ways to make money.

Do they completely rely on their own resources or do they have any exports/imports? if so, what are they?
Their primary exports are animal products and art. The only other industry in this region is tourism and even that is an unstable source of income at best. They import everything, besides from what they can get from the land, ie meat. Principle imports are food, cloths, vehicles, and shelter.

Do the kids at the school have any kind of different subjects they learn, like about thier heritage, culture, survival?
From what we know so far they currently have little formal education into their own culture. What they do have is embedded into their cirriculum and this is in addition to what they learn from their elders and parents. If they were to travel south their are schools that do teach such things but very few are able to do this. In the next few years there is planned to be the creation of the "Nunuvut Cultural School" in Clyde River. When it comes it will be a positive influence on the community, bringing people and money into the comunity.