Global exposure: Nunavut Sivuniksavut students visit the UN – Nunatsiaq News

May 17, 2016

“The presence of NS students really augmented the Inuit presence as a whole”

Just before graduating from the two-year advanced studies program at Nunavut Sivuniksavut in Ottawa May 15, the 2016 graduating class went where no other NS class had gone before: to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City.

The seven students who took the six-day trip from May 8 to 13 participated in the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus at UN headquarters.

“It’s been an excellent trip, just wonderful down here,” the veteran NS instructor Murray Angus told Nunatsiaq News from New York May 13, hours before he and the students returned to Ottawa.

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