Ajaja

Program name: Takujuminaqtut / Takuyuminaqtut
Producer: Rankin Inlet – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Host: Marijah Aliyak

Location: Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
Segment 1: Elders talk about their reaction to the helmet bylaw for motor vehicles.

 Filmed by Zacharias Kunuk.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2000
DURATION: 29 min
GENRE: Docu-drama
FORMAT: Video (colour)
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut, Eng/Fr s-t
DIRECTORS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Helene Cousineau
PRODUCER: Arnait Video Productions… En savoir plus

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atanarjuat Song, 5:10, Inuktitut, sung by a Pond Inlet woman named Paingut Peterloosie. READ BELOW the words translated in English by Zacharias Kunuk. Camera, Zacharias Kunuk, Editor, Carol Kunnuk.

I’m going to sing my Ayaya song.

Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.