There are many ways to be poor, but in today’s world, not having the right kind of information represents a certain kind of poverty. As long as outsiders decide what is important and are in a position to ask all of the questions, we will never be able to solve our own problems. Without information we are nothing at all, and have no power to understand things or to change our life. If Inuit society is to develop we must be able to collect and use information according to our own terms. If we continue to lose information, the age of computers will overwhelm us It is time for us to go out and do whatever has to be done to get the information that belongs to us. This is the only way we can hold on to our heritage of knowledge and break a dependency that will always keep us as second class citizens in our own land. We have to do this today because of tomorrow. For the Inuit there are two tomorrows. The first is for us and this generation. It is a small ‘t’ tomorrow. But the most important tomorrow begins with a big ‘T’. It’s the Tomorrow of my children and their children.

Mark R. Gordon, from the ITK web site www.tapirisat.ca