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Tuberculosis documentary shows healing through sharing stories

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Tuberculosis documentary shows healing through sharing stories
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Iqaluit’s Astro Theatre was filled with people Tuesday evening for the première of a documentary that follows a group of tuberculosis survivors and youth as they find closure over their forced relocations decades ago.
Between the 1940s-1960s, the federal government transported thousands of Inuit to southern sanatoriums for tuberculosis treatment without their consent or without informing them about what was happening.
Many Inuit never returned home.
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