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IsumaTV creates Inuit Language and Culture Institute
channel: Inuit Language News
Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, speaking at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway, October 20, 2008, announced the creation of the Inuit Language and Culture Institute on IsumaTV, a five year $25 million commitment to install high-speed broadband and public access production studios in every participating Inuit community.
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Alaska's Youth Protest Gov. Palin and the State of Alaska Against Uranium Mining
channel: Mining Resources & Networks
*Elim Students Against Uranium* (ESAU)
October 2008
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Protesters denounce inequities in First Nations school funding
EDMONTON (CBC) - Hundreds of protesters from First Nations across Alberta held a lunchtime rally in downtown Edmonton on Wednesday to demand equal educational funding for aboriginal students.
Protesters said the federal government does not fund First Nations schools as well as other schools in Alberta, and that inequity violates promises made in their treaties.
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Kitikmeot Regional Elder and Youth Culture Camp
channel: Inuusivut
Elders and Youth from each of the 7 communities across the Kitikmeot region participated in a Language and Culture Camp in Omingmaktok (Bay Chimo) and Hiraarvik from August 10-16. Youth learned traditional skills such as sewing, tool making, hunting and meat/skin preparation. Participants from across the region flew into Cambridge Bay, where a charter transported them to Bay Chimo. Foll… Read more