""Can't we just celebrate the hockey sticks?" she asked. Tolu Ilelaboye, a Winnipeg community-development officer of Yoruba heritage, replied, "Yeah, but what's the intention? Like the colonialists giving them blankets, which gave them smallpox?"

Seriously, comparing the intent of giving hockey sticks to that of giving smallpox? And this is a "community development officer"?

"Inuit make up 85 per cent of the population and so are entitled by law to 85 per cent of Nunavut's jobs, but hold only half the territorial positions and a third of the federal ones. "

Those are modern jobs that require modern skills. The dilemma is how to train and educate enough Inuit to fill those jobs without some degree of  "assimilation", as traditional culture does not provide those skills. 

Why not look to those Asian countries which have managed to successfully educate their populations, while conserving some aspects of their culture and adapting others?