The University of Regina has used video material featuring aboriginal people as a base for constructing teaching resources and we invite teachers to use these resources. We also encourage teachers to use this video material to construct their own lessons.
An introduction to the DIAMA/IsumaTV and the Inuit Culture Education was made to the principal and teachers of Ataguttaaluk
Elementary School and High School in Igloolik. Two classes at the Elementary school and two classes of the High School had the chance to use the Inuit
Culture Education website.
Kelly Quewezance is a member of the Keeseekoose First Nation
in Saskatchewan. He has a degree in Social Work from the University of Regina.
In the video clips he describes his role in distributing Treaty Annuity
Payments as the North Band Governance officer of Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada (INAC).
On a rainy evening in August 2009 Tim Haywahe from Carry the
Kettle First Nation in southern Saskatchewan led a group of Little Sisters
through a tipi raising on the grounds of the First Nations University of
Canada. During this process he talked to the girls about his traditional Nakota
way of raising the tipi.
Son of Sauri, he is an overbearing man who exudes a
brutal arrogance concealing perpetually wounded feelings. He is a jealous and
quick-tempered bully.
PETER HENRY ARNATSIAQ is Oki, Atanarjuat's lifelong rival
and enemy. Living in Igloolik as a full-time hunter, Atanarjuat was Peter
Henry's first acting experience.
When young, he has a submissive manner concealing a
bitter resentment of his powerful father, the murdered camp leader. When he
becomes camp leader himself, he shows himself to be cunning, manipulative, and
intimidating.
She is an elegant, intelligent woman with a young girl's
lively face. She exudes energy and at the same time gives an immediate sense of
calmness and strength. She possesses spirit powers.
Lead male. A powerful, physical young man -- a force of
nature. He is neither mean-spirited nor kind. Like his brother Atanarjuat, he
is a confident hunter, well-dressed, and well fed.
Lead male. A lean, fine-featured young man with
intelligent, dreamy eyes. He has the carefree, athletic gracefulness of someone
for whom everything comes almost too easily. He is a confident hunter,
well-dressed, and well fed.
An evil shaman. An odd yet mild-looking man who can
transform his features into pure evil. This mysterious stranger is unrelated to
either family but brings evil to them both.
ABRAHAM ULAYURULUK is a hunter, carver, and respected
Igloolik Elder
After completing “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner,” set in the mythological past in a community whose balance of life had not changed for 4,000 years, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn chose to depict a series of events that took place in 1922, when Shamanism was replaced by Christianity – and the balance of life was changed forev… Leer más
