Dorothy Mesher grew up in the ever-changing Kuujjuaq of the 1930s and 1940s. She uses 10 pictures she treasures and keeps in a metal box that belonged to her mother to share memories of her youth.
This is Taz Morgan, the Media Archive Intern at WITNESS. Teague Schneiter thought the IsumaTV community would be interested in this post that I wrote for the WITNESS blog.
The filmmakers of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen write, 'This film asks questions among others, about vanished peoples, colonization, cultural amnesia, effaced memory, Christianization and the complete erasure of a religion - especially in the absence of a literary tradition in most Aboriginal oral cultures.' … Read more
