after world war ii, royal canadian mounted police forced inuit to government-created settlements and a federal justice system was imposed. aboriginal children were forced to attend infamous residential schools, where sexual abuse, disease and even death were common. the effects can still be felt today. >> certainly the rapid social and economic changes over the last two generations have had a big effect. if you look at the suicide rate it's many, many times the national rate especially for young inuit men. so those things are a crises, they're leading to more illness, they're leading to psychological trauma. >> resolute's hunters are drawing names to find out who will participate in this seasons polar bear hunt. until recently, hunting rights like many other like many other parts of intuit life, were regulated by ottowa. in 1993, desperate for a say in their own future, the inuit of the norhwestern territories, signed a land agreement with ottowa. nunavut was born. in return for a degree of self-governance the the community surrendered their aboriginal title to their lands. >> under