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Rankin Inlet teacher starts free Inuktitut course for beginners – Nunatsiaq News
10 February 2020 Nine-week programs runs weekly in Rankin Inlet and online Appolina Makkigak is used to teaching Inuktitut to an audience of little ones. But the Grade 1 Inuktitut teacher at Leo Ussak School in Rankin Inlet recently decided to add a different kind of classroom to her schedule, one with a slightly older […]
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Vuntut Gwitchin look to correct mismarked cultural sites in final land claim agreement – CBC
Amendment would not affect hunting rights of Gwich’in Tribal Council members The Vuntut Gwitchin in northern Yukon want to make corrections to their final land-claim agreement related to eight mismarked culturally significant sites in their traditional territory. The First Nation signed the document in 1995, which includes 56 site-specific parcels of culturally significant settlement lands […]
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Call for Entries – Festival de Cannes 2020
Cannes, France, May 12 to 23, 2020 (Feature-length, Narrative) Telefilm Canada is currently accepting Canadian entries on behalf of the Cannes Film Festival for the selection screenings of feature films to be held in Montréal from February 24 to March 13, 2020. Each year, Telefilm Canada invites members of the selection committees from Cannes to […]
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Sahtu Got’ine writing their own history one book at a time – APTN News
February 3, 2020 Sandy Kenny tries to get on the land as often as she can. “The more you connect with the land, the more the land connects with you,” she said grinning. Kenny is one of roughly 625 Sahtu Got’ine Dene in the community of Délı̨ne, located on the western shores of the Sahtu […]
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Grieving sister fundraises to bring deceased woman back from Ottawa – Nunatsiaq News
3 February 2020 Bonnie Atagootak, 34, died last week under suspicious circumstances Warning: parts of this story may bring distress to some readers. A grieving Pond Inlet woman whose sister, Bonnie Atagootak, 34, died suddenly in Ottawa last week has launched a fundraiser on Facebook to help her elderly parents bring their daughter’s remains back […]
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Uqausirmut Quviasuutiqarniq 2020: Attiiniq
IQALUIT, Nunavut (January 31, 2020) – During Uqausirmut Quviasuutiqarniq – celebration of Inuktut language month, the Government of Nunavut invites Nunavummiut to share their family stories through Attiiniq, the customary practice of Inuit naming. “This year’s theme celebrates the practice of naming; a powerful expression of who we are as individuals and as a society,” […]
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Canada honours Qapik Attagutsiak, 99, wartime Inuit bone collector – Nunatsiaq News
Revered elder from Arctic Bay took part in World War II salvage effort 29 January 2020 The Second World War was already well underway in 1940, when Qapik Attagutsiak, then aged about 20 and living at a camp in the Igloolik area, first heard about it from a Roman Catholic priest. “We were afraid that […]
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‘A living human treasure’: the epic life of Inuk Elder Qapik Attagutsiak – APTN News
January 27, 2020 Inuit efforts in the Second World War were honoured Monday at the Canadian Museum of History, 75 years after the liberation of the last Nazi extermination camps. Qapik Attagutsiak, a 99-year-old Elder from Arctic Bay, Nunavut – surrounded by totem poles, in a building designed by renowned Indigenous architect Douglas Cardinal – […]
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Naka aurora festival returns for second year this March – Cabin Radio
The Naka festival will return to Yellowknife and Dettah from March 2 to 7, adding new events to celebrate northern culture and the northern lights. The festival, which is organized by the City of Yellowknife and Yellowknives Dene First Nation with NWT government support, ran for the first time last year. The Wiliideh word for […]
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Canada Goose Launches Bespoke Project Atigi Collection Featuring 18 Inuit Designers
TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2020 – Canada Goose (NYSE: GOOS) (TSX: GOOS) today launched its latest collection for Project Atigi, a social entrepreneurship program featuring hand-crafted parkas by Inuit designers from Inuit Nunangat in Northern Canada. Established in 2019, Project Atigi celebrates the expertise and the rich heritage of craftsmanship that has enabled Inuit to live […]
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