JenniferMay

Words by Michaela McGuire

Video by EVIL Patrick Shannon 

In 2009, Rachel Uyarasuk, elder of the Inuit community of Igloolik (Nunavut), evokes the ancestors whose name she received at birth. She explains how this transmission ensured their return among the world of the living.

A film by Christin Merlhiot

France, 2014, 11 minutes, animation

Inuktitut with English & French subtitles

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Louie Uttak NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 5:58 Inuktitut, Igloolik Elder expresses his concerns for protection of marine mammals and wildlife and Inuit way of life, 'Don't hide anything from me.'

Inuit epic set in ancient Igloolik, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner is a life-threatening struggle of love, jealousy, murder and revenge between powerful natural and supernatural characters, Canada's first feature film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. 2001 Camera d'or, Cannes Film Festival; Best Picture, 2002 Genie Awards; #1 Canadian Film of the Decade, Macleans, CTV.

James Simonee, an Inuit hunter from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, investigates the impacts of one of the largest iron mines in the world on traditional lands near his community.… Uqalimakkanirit

ᔩᑲ ᑲᓪᓚ ᐃᓅᓱᑦᑑᓱᓂ ᐱᓱᓯᔪᕕᓂ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᒥ ᒪᓕᑦᓱᓂ
ᐅᔭᕋᓐᓂᐊᑯᐊᓗᑦᓱᑎ ᓱᓇᖃᑦᓯᐊᖏᓐᓇᒥ ᑐᖁᑲᓴᑦᑐᕕᓃᑦ
ᐊᐅᓚᔨᔭᖏᑦ

At the age of 22, Jeeka Kudluk, an Inuk from Kangirsuq (Quebec), left his familly for a two-month expedition led by a British prospector. Unprepared, they nearly died trying to find the precious minerals. This is his recollection of events.

Elder Davidee Niviaxie and his daughter Eva of Umiujaq. Davidee will be talking about some of the earlier times in his life as well as language and its importance.

NITV Live: Interview with Mayor of Igloolik, September 9th, 2020, NITV 2020, Interviewer Lucy Tulugarjuk. Inuktut and English.

Live NITV webcast on IsumaTV and IsumaTV Facebook September 9, 2020, interview with Mayor of Igloolik about upcoming Baffin Land Iron Mine Phase 2 technical hearings.

The major differences between men and women in education and career choices. The reality to show that the hunters and fishers, and their wives, are deeply proud of what they are doing, despite society requiring Greenlanders to be educated. I follow two hunters and fishers, their wives and a BA