Yupik director Aleksei Vakhrushev speaks with Lucy Tulugarjuk about his 2018 documentary The Book of The Sea, his career making films, and the importance of preserving traditions through cinema.
Inuit and Cree of Nunavik (Northern Québec) recount how they escaped the economic oppression of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Overcoming tremendous challenges, in 1959 they founded a co operative; then other communities followed suit. Today, the federation they created contributes as part of Nunavik’s co-operative movement, with accumulated assets exceeding half a billion dollars!
Interview with Nuluujaat Land Guardian, and their lawyer Lori Idlout, to discuss the Mary River Phase 2 proposal and their protest.
The Nuluujaat Land Guardians drove by snowmobile Feb. 4 from Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay to Mary River, where they blockaded the tote road and airstrip until Feb. 11.
