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.
Bringing Inuit culture into primary schools for the International Polar Year, Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum (EICC) is a multimedia unit for grades 4-6 about Inuit culture, the Arctic and Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.… Leer más
The goal of Arnait Video Productions (Women’s
Video Workshop of Igloolik) is to value the voices of Inuit women in
debates of interest to all Canadians. How does one experience the
dawning of the third millennium in a small Inuit community that is in
the midst of political and social change?
An archive of radio stories transmitted from the set during the making of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Igloolik Isuma Productions' second feature film and part of The Fast Runner Trilogy.
Leah Angutimarik, who plays Apak, is a member of Artcirq and the Aqsiit Project, which offered circus training to young people. She has participated in youth training projects in art, dance and video. “The Journals of Knud Rasmussen” is her first appearance on screen. She is currently unemployed and lives with her family in Igloolik.