Two friends who started a reconciliation project around seals and sealing say they want to continue to expand their initiative and show how reconciliation can be about building positive relationships, not sowing division.

“Sometimes [when reconciliation] is talked about, both groups [of people] point fingers and it’s negativity,” Ruben Komangapik, an artist and hunter who grew up in the Nunavut community of Pond Inlet, said in a phone interview….