drum dancing

Program name: Inukshuk
Producer: Baker Lake – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Location: Baker Lake, Nunavut
Host: Sam Itkilik

Segment 1: In 1993, Jacob Ikinilik talks about how to skin a caribou properly for making clothing.

Program name: Tohaknaak
Producer: Cambridge Bay – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Host: Sarah Green

Segment 1: In 1986, a brief history of Holman Island is given with Agnes Nigiyok. She talks about how Holman Island became a community.

Segment 2: Frank Kuptana talks about drum dancing and why the people drum danced.

Producer: Baker Lake Production Centre – probably during the Inukshuk Project

Segment 1: This shows a Christmas church service with Armand Tagoona in1980. A variety of activities, including Inuit games, ajaaja songs, and drum dancing, which took place during Christmas time, are also shown. A French priest also gives his Christmas and New Years greetings.

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All Aspects of Drum Dancing

Program name: Takuyaksat
Takuyaksat was a Baker Lake production involving cultural activities, storytelling, hunting, sewing, and legends.
Producer: Pani Panipatunguajaq - Baker Lake - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Host: Martin Qilak (Kreelak)
Camera: Pani Panipatunguajaq
Location: Baker Lake

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IBC Baker Lake BL-514, Old Folks, Inuit Storytelling, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. Inuktut.

Segment 1: Elders from the Kivalliq region meet in Baker lake and share stories. They also drum dance and sing. Old photos are shown at the end of the video.

ᐋᓐᔨᓖᓐ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑯᑯ ᕿᒻᒥᖅ ᐅᖃᖃᑎᒌᒃᑑᒃ ᕿᓚᐅᔾᔭᕐᓂᕐᒥᒃ, ᐳᓛᕆᐊᓯᑦᑕᕆᕘᒃ ᐃᓂᐊᓯ ᑲᓪᓗᒃᒥᒃ ᕿᓚᐅᔾᔭᖅᑎᐅᔪᒥᒃ, ᐃᓂᐊᓯ ᑲᓪᓗᒃ ᕿᓚᐅᑎᓕᕆᑎᓪᓗᒍ.
Angeline and Kuku the dog talk about the history of Inuit drum dancing. Kuku goes for a visit with Ernie Kadloo, a drum dancer and drum maker.

Program name: Tohaknaak
Producer: Cambridge Bay – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Host: James Kavana
Location: Gjoa Haven, Nunavut
Interviewer: James Kavana
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Elders, Students and Staff in Arviat celebrated 2014 Inuktitut Language Week with traditional drum dances, games and a feast at the Arviat Community Learning Centre.

IBC Qimaivvik 013, Elders teaching, Producers Sam Pudlat & Pacome Qulaut.

Segment 1- Elders teaching.Segment 2- Drum dancers.

Segment 1- Traditional cooking and Arviat Drum Dancer;

Segment 2- Isuma Production's Spring Seal Hunt.

Producer's Name: Jake Kadluk

Country: Canada

Region: Qimaivvik

First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes...