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My father is Aua, a great and powerful shaman, and I too have the power to call spirits. My father and I argue and he thinks I waste this power, for I use it only to spend time with my dead husband. My first sweetheart, Nuqallaq, was kicked out of camp when I was a teenager, and I soon fell in love and married.… En savoir plus

I am called Orulu, and I was born at the mouth of Admiralty Inlet. While I was still a little child carried on my mother's back, my parents left Baffin Land and settled at Iglulik.… En savoir plus

Before I was born, my mother was cursed by an evil shaman who whispered in her ear, 'All your children will be born dead!' and it was so. But when my mother broke taboo, I began struggling and kicking to get out through her navel, a sensitiveness that was a sign I should live to become a great shaman.… En savoir plus

My name is Therkel Mathiassen and I was born on September 5, 1892. I became an archaeologist and traveled with my friend and fellow explorer, Knud Rasmussen through the Arctic. In 1922, Knud and I were members of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition.… En savoir plus

I am Peter Freuchen, and I was born in Nykobing, Denmark on the island of Falster in 1879. I became an explorer who, along with Knud Rasmussen, made many expeditions to the Arctic.… En savoir plus

My name is Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, and I was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland on June 7, 1879. I am of both Inuit and Danish descent and speak fluent Inuktitut. I am an experienced arctic traveler whose life's work has been dedicated to the study of the Eskimos.… En savoir plus

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 forever.  Kunuk was inspired to make the film for “a first audience that… En savoir plus

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For countless generations, Igloolik elders have kept the legend of Atanarjuat alive to teach young Inuit the danger of setting personal desire above the needs of the group.
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