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Her home community of Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories is a village of about 100 people on the Beaufort Sea in the far western Arctic region of Canada. At eight, Rosemarie was taken away by police from her family and community to attend a government residential school for indigenous children four hundreds miles away from her home. As was typical of the education policies applied to indigenous peoples in the 1960's and early 1970 s, she was forced to speak only English and to adopt a foreign way of living. She has been guided by the values instilled in her by her parents, William and Sarah Kuptana, her grandparents and extended Inuit family. Rosemarie became involved in Inuit organizations around 1975 when discussions first began between Inuit and the Government of Canada to reach formal agreements regarding Inuit land rights.