Ann Hansen 2

They're always being used, although we never notice them. All the communities are growing because people are having children and they are growing - nobody is frozen in time. We use IQ without realizing it today. Things of the past, if we don't use IQ, we would not be more together. Through IQ, we always have to help each other and that's the only way we have survived. If we try to be on our own, we wouldn't be alive, so in helping each other, we are here today, and its going to stay that way - if we try to use what Inuit know - and that's how I try to explain it when someone ask about what IQ mean. I often use it for example, although there are lots of other meanings: being organized, never stealing, never lying, always telling the truth, feeding other people, and being welcoming. There are lots of meanings. As I said before, it's for your whole life; it's not one, a lot of things are involved. Thanks.

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