IHUMA OPINION
TANINGNAQ HALF-INUVIALUIT, HALF-WHITE
Tanik, Tanaaluk—we have many names for Caucasian or white people. }
WORDS by CHRISTINA KING (TAALRUMIQ) PORTRAIT by KARIS GRUBEN
While looking through my Siglit Dictionary one day, I came across a word, ‘Taningnaq,’ and it got me thinking: what a funny word, we even have a name for Inuvialuit who are half-Inuvialuit/half-white... I had never heard of ‘Taningnaq,’ so I wondered if this word was an accurate way to describe some of our people today, and if it had a positive or negative connotation. It must have been common in our culture for us to even have a word for it. Then I thought of my children.
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