Synopsis: Survival experts and seasoned hunters Paulusie Novalinga and Peter Boy Ittukallak teach life saving skills for when out on the land along with avid mushers and hunter-fishermen Jani-Marik Beaulne and Aisa Surusilak.
Synopsis: Survival experts and seasoned hunters Paulusie Novalinga and Peter Boy Ittukallak teach life saving skills for when out on the land along with avid mushers and hunter-fishermen Jani-Marik Beaulne and Aisa Surusilak.
Synopsis: We learn about the history of the kayak as well as how one is constructed along with storytelling from Inukjuak elders Lucassie Echalook and Elisapi Inukpuk.
Synopsis: Host Akinisie Sivuaraapik interviews Inukjuak elders Lucassie Echalook and Elisapi Inukpuk about the origins, the significance and the making of the traditional skin boat, the Umiaq.
Synopsis: Host Akinisie Sivuaraapik interviews Inukjuak elders Lucassie Echalook and Elisapi Inukpuk about the origins, the significance and the making of a traditional skin boat, the Umiaq.
Filmed over a period of three years, from summer 1963 to the late winter of 1965, and released in 1967, the Netsilik series is about the tradtional lifestyle of Netsilingmiut living in the area around Kugaaruk.
In this episode, work on the kayak continues. More skins are soaked; ribs are split and shaped. Finally, the kayak is ready and the men take it out on the water for a test.
Part of a series of stories about our legends, our histories, and our relationship with the land, sea, environment, and all living things within it. Produced by ITK.
The history of changes experienced by Inuit people in the last sixty years is contained in the stories of Vivi Kunuk. Abandoned by her father, a White RCMP officer, Vivi Kunuk was adopted by the Inuk family of her mother who raised her as a boy. This is but one remarkable chapter in her life.
