Scar Tissue: The legacy of medical experimentation on Inuit in the Arctic

Scar Tissue: The legacy of medical experimentation on Inuit in the Arctic

Paul Quassa walks into his kitchen and points to a dead goose on the counter of his Iqaluit home. “We just got this earlier today. Some hunter gave it to us,” says the 74-year-old Inuk man. “We don’t pluck it like most of other First Nations do it, but we cut it up,” Quassa illustrates by opening his right hand and running it as if it were a blade from the tail of the goose to the breast. “We cut it from the back rather than the front.” Quassa d…