In this issue, Defence Minister Donald Macdonald announced a new program intended to interest young northerners in a career with the Canadian Armed Forces. He said an attempt will be made to recruit some 100 men and women for training in the administrative, transportation, supply, food services and communication fields.

Regional supervisor of Adult Education, Mr. Terry Forth, leaves the Keewatin for a new post in Inuvik. The N.W.T. government explains how adoptions work in the Northwest Territories. He posts a letter thanking the community for the experience of working in the region.

In letters to the editor, an anonymous writer compares government with the old times. Baker Lake resident Jonah Amitnaq share his life story. The use of syllabic finals for writing Inuktitut is explained. Debate continues over use of the word Eskimo or Inuit to describe Inuit and the first report on the establishment of Inuit Tapirisat of Canada is announced.

On June 10, 1971, forty-three students graduated from the Churchill Vocational Centre.

In May, 1971, NWT Governing Council member Lena Pederson advocates for bilingualism and biculturalism in the school system. Inuktitut must be taught in the schools in order for Inuit language and culture to survive. Keewatin delegates attend a community leadership workshop in Baker Lake. National standards for labelling hazardous products become mandatory as the second part of the Canadian Hazardous Product Act passed by Parliament in 1969 comes into effect. A group of Inuit from Sanikiluaq visit the Keewatin to learn how municipal govenments there function. The debate over whether Inuit should be called Eskimos, Innuit or Inuit is discussed, the GNWT Housing Corporation institutes new policies and the late Elder Marcel Akadlakwa shares two traditional Inuit stories.