My Father's Land website
See also: DID Digital Indigenous Democracy.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Louie Uttak NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 5:58 Inuktitut; Inuktitut and English Versions of other community comments and Formal Intervention July 23, 2012 by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Read complete Kunuk-Lipsett English Written Submission.
See What's New? below for all video and radio uploaded to My Father's Land including live online radio streaming of NIRB Public Hearings in Igloolik and Iqaluit and more call-in radio shows and video interviews with Inuit Elders and Youth talking about the impacts of mining around Baffin Island on Inuit and wildlife.
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by samcc
1980's video, Segment 1, Interview with Zacharias Kunuk on Isuma Productions; Segment 2, Interview with Oolie Ittinuar on shamanism, floe-edge animal in Creswell. Producer, Jake Kadluk, by Inuit Broadcasting Corp.
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by Norman Cohn
The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is an international competition for youth-led projects that encourage the active participation of young people under 30 years of age in the emerging information society. It is intended to be a global 'youth for youth' initiative for selecting and promoting best practice in e-content and technological creativity, demonstrating young people's potential to create...
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by Norman Cohn
The First Mile Connectivity Consortium (FMCC) is a national consortium emerging as an outcome of the collaborative process leading to the First Mile report (Putting the Last-mile First). Although founded by and originally focused on First Mile solutions for First Nations communities in remote and rural Canada, the FMCC welcomes members from anywhere who share its goals and principles. FMCC’...
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Madeline Ivalu speaks about mining in an interview filmed for the program Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ "It seems that in the past our land was deemed too inhospitable; lack of vegetation, trees, too cold. Now that there are minerals to be extracted, one could think that there is a systematic plan in place. The plan consists of destroying the environment, the wildlife, therefore the...
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![Link to: Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ](https://dzvas27mg75kp.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/Medium/media_mover/isuma/3/interview_Dominique.mov.jpg "Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ "...we have to fight so hard for our rights when often things are already decided for us")
Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ "...we have to fight so hard for our rights when often things are already decided for us." Arnait Video, Show Me on the Map, 2009. Click on more for the transcription. “We are always looking for ways to have a better life. Our children today are really adapted to the modern life they are living in."...
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by Norman Cohn
In August, the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY) overruled its previous refusal and now approved the original funding proposal for NITV on IsumaTV 3.0, NITV's 2011-12 proposal to expand the network of IsumaTV High-speed MediaPlayers to a total of 8 Baffin Island communities: Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit, started in 2010-11, and...
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by Norman Cohn
Before Tomorrow, co-directed by Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, won the Golden Drum award at the 2011 Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival in Kathmandu. Before Tomorrow is the third Inuit feature film in The Fast Runner Trilogy produced by Igloolik Isuma Productions. See Nepal's Indigenous Film Archive on Isuma TV; see Before Tomorrow on VOD.
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by Norman Cohn
Digital Indigenous Democracy is a proposal to the Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream for $1 million funding in 2011-12. It is a partnership among IsumaTV, NITV (Nunavut Independent TV Network), the Hamlet Councils of seven Baffin Island communities led by Igloolik, and scholars from Carleton University and Mount Allison University. You can DOWNLOAD the complete proposal by PDF...
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Download in best-quality a sample selection of screens showing how Digital Indigenous Democracy will appear on IsumaTV, as a network of its first 14 communities, or 'hubs.'
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Preview the screenshots of 14 Hubs as a low-resolution slideshow.
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by nbrusch
Installing IsumaTV Hi-speed into Channel 51 Igloolik, a local cable TV community channel operating 24/7 to home TVs.
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Using Skype and social media to bring filmmakers and audiences together Live online.
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by samcc
November 19th, 2010. Iqaluit, Nunavut.CBC North radio interview with Zach and Paul in which they talk about the IsumaTV MediaPlayers and its uses in helping to offer high-speed internet in low-bandwidth communities.
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ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ an excerpt from Nunaqaqaviviniqput: Our Traditional Homeland, 3:56 Inuktitut by Zacharias Kunuk, 2009.
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by David Ertel
Boost slow internet to high-speed in Inuit and Aboriginal communities: contact info@isuma.tv Pilot 2010-11: Increasing Inuktitut language content across Nunavut communities 7 Communities Connected to Hi-speed Inuit Website All-Inuktitut TV Channel Broadcast to Home Television Inuktitut Educational Content Direct to Students and Teachers Inuit and Aboriginal communities worldwide face loss...
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About My Father’s Land
By Zacharias Kunuk
Read complete text or download PDF www.isuma.tv/lo/en/did/zacharias-kunuk-formal-intervention-to-nirb-written-submission-june-8-2012. I was born in 1957 in a sod house at Kapuivik in the middle of Ikpiq, the top of Foxe Basin, halfway between Kangirdlukjuak – Steensby Inlet – and my home community of Igloolik. My birthplace is like the ‘heart’ of the Baffinland Iron Mine impact area, the part that would change the most if and when the mine, railroad, deep-water port and supertanker shipping passing through it are approved to go ahead for the next 100 years. I traveled a long way from Kapuivik since 1957 in space and in time, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age in one generation. As an Inuk I caught caribou, seals, walrus, wolves, ptarmigan, belugas, narwhal, polar bear, snow geese, muskox and arctic char, all harvested for food, skins and oil to keep my family well-fed and warm. As a filmmaker I showed my work, my language and my culture at the Cannes Film Festival and Adelaide, Australia, in New York and Paris, in Alert Bay on Vancouver Island and Tromso in arctic Norway. I learned more about my culture and Inuit ways, and more about the outside world and how it works.
About Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID)
(Overview 5 May 2012)
Inuit consensus – "deciding together" – may be the strongest power communities can bring to negotiating with governments and transnational corporations. DID uses internet, community radio, local TV and social media to amplify Inuit traditional decision-making skills at a moment of crisis and opportunity, as Inuit face Environmental Review of the $6 billion Baffinland Iron Mine (BIM) on north Baffin Island. Through DID, Inuit adapt "deciding together" to get needed information in language they understand, talk about their concerns publicly and reach collective decisions with the power of consensus. Inuit consensus will be expressed publicly in a multimedia Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), looking at the positive and negative impacts of the proposed mine in terms of international human rights standards and best practices, and then presented to the regulatory process, online through IsumaTV and through local radio and TV channels in all Nunavut communities. For more information see DID Overview. DID News Alert. Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home.
