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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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DID News Alert May 1, 2012. Inuit land claim gets first $2.2 million royalty paymentOn Tuesday May 1st 2012, the Inuit land claims organization Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI), received their first royalty payment of $2.2 million dollars. The royalty payment was made by the mining company Agnico-Eagle, which runs the Meadowbank gold mine near Baker Lake, Nunavut. NTI received the money for...
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Well, in Montreal April 25, 2012 for the International Polar Year Conference, I witness this protest by Montreal students against tuition fees hikes, 4:23.
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by Norman Cohn
Baffinland Iron Mine Corp (BIM) revision of 2012 field work plan and withdrawal of new Type B water license application. Download the original March 30, 2012 letter as PDF.
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By Philip BurgessInternational Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Kautokeino, Norwayphilip.burgess@reindeercentre.orgThis documentary is about the International Polar Year project called EALAT, which looks at the impact on reindeer husbandry of climate change and other land use changes such as oil and gas development on reindeer pastures in the Arctic. Scenes from reindeer herding around the Arctic,...
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By Philip Burgess, International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Kautokeino, Norway.philip.burgess@reindeercentre.orgEALÁT is a research project carried out under the International Polar Year and the Arctic Council SustainableDevelopment Working Group that has looked at these challenges that reindeer herders are facing andinvestigated how herders can best adapt to the realities of this rapidly...
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by Norman Cohn
Baffinland slashes scope of Nunavut's Mary River Project, Company postpones railway, Steensby Inlet port, Foxe Basin shippingNUNATSIAQ NEWS Jan 10/13In a bolt from the blue, the Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. told Nunavut regulators Jan. 10 they’ve slashed the scope of the Mary River iron project in response to slumping steel prices and rising borrowing costs. “In the current global...
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by Norman Cohn
OSC says Jowdat Waheed used confidential information to ‘unfair advantage’ in hostile Baffinland bid By Barbara Shecter, Financial Post January 14, 2013 Jowdat Waheed used confidential information he obtained as a consultant to “unfair advantage” by launching a hostile bid for Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., a lawyer for the Ontario Securities Commission said Monday as a...
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![Link to: Interview with Arsene Ivalu, 3:49 Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ](https://dzvas27mg75kp.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/Medium/media_mover/isuma/3/Arsene_path_0.mov.jpg "Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on")
Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on the Map, 2009. Click on more info to get the English transcription. "I disagree with the pathway the company wants to use. It is not that I am against mining. This pathway, I really disagree with. When there...
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ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ The day Natalino caught a bear at Igloolik point, 9:13 Inuktitut, Thursday morning, December 15, 2011, shot with an iPod by Zacharias Kunuk, editor Carol Kunnuk.This video has been "age-restricted" on YouTube. But is available here for all to see!
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Circumpolar Inuit to Global Leaders in Durban: Don’t Abandon Kyoto 06 December, 2011 – Ottawa, Canada – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), representing Inuit from Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Chukotka, Russia, released a document today addressed to global leaders assembled for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Durban. The Inuit...
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ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atuat Akkirtiq shares her views on mining in this interview recorded for the program Show Me on the Map. "If the people consult us, they should be true to their word." "In Nanisivik, (mining town, north of Arctic Bay) when they started to build the houses and the town, they were looking for Inuit workers and they asked us for our opinions on the mine. We were...
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Panel Discussion from the Indigenous Film Conference October 27-29, 2011 webcast LIVE on IsumaTV from Kauokeino, Norway. NOTE: Action in this video STARTS at 2:20 minutes into the clip.Hosted by the International Sami Film Centre.
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by Norman Cohn
Sheila
Watt‐Cloutier,
an
Inuk
climate
change
advocate
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Nobel
Peace
Prize
Nominee,
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be
giving
a
public
lecture
at
Mount
Allison
University
on
the
human
dimensions
of
climate
change.
It
will
be
held on
November
29th
at
7
PM
(Atlantic
Time)
in
Convocation
Hall.
Entitled
“Not
the
Time
to
COP
Out”,
the
lecture
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mark
the
second...
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by Norman Cohn
Digital Indigenous Democracy and International Sami Film Centre collaborated on IsumaTV's live webcast of the Indigenous Film Conference from Kautokeino, Norway, October 26-30, 2011. Live webcasts now are archived at:http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en/international-sami-film-centre
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by Norman Cohn
Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream approved a $1 million investment in IsumaTV's newest initiative, Digital Indigenous Democracy, for 2011-12. For more information, see attached files.
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by Norman Cohn
International Sami Film Center announces a brand new program for projects, Please spread this information, through your website and network. We hope that your collagues will apply.For more info, http://indigenousfilmcircle.comhttp://indigenousfilmcircle.com/en-espanol/ contact: Åsa Simma simma@isf.as
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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.
