John Hodgins

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I have been the Technical Director for IsumaTV since our launch in 2008. I've managed the growth of the site from a simple video blog to an interactive social networking and OTT VOD platform, as well as acting as lead developer for a variety of Isuma's digital projects. I've travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic managing installation of IsumaTV MediaPlayers in Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit. More recently, I developed the technology and helped launch Uvagut TV, Canada's first national Inuktut television channel.See more

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  • Gjoa Haven | Uqsuqtuuq | ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ

    uploaded by: GjoaHaven

    Gjoa Haven is a Low Bandwidth High Cost internet community. Internet service is 150 times behind southern Canada in cost-per-MB. To overcome this handicap NITV installs local server Mediaplayers to deliver high speed media to slow speed users, and broadcasts our internet films and videos to home TV.

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    uploaded date: 07-03-2016

  • Old Massett

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page was possible through the Haida Script Development Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).

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    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • 55m 53s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Peter 2 Aulatjut and Charlie Akat

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Host Evano Jr. Aggarak sits down with Arviat Elder Peter 2 Aulatjut who shares his insights about the community, reflecting on its growth in the 1950s and 1960s. He will discuss what Arviat was like during those early years, including his experiences with Charlie Akat and the changes that shaped the town's development.

    First Broadcast January 16th, 2025

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    uploaded date: 16-01-2025

  • 8m 22s

    Tracking Polar Bears Outside Iqaluit!

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

     

    Tracking Polar Bears Outside Iqaluit!

    Polar bears are elusive, even in open tundra landscapes. This video follows Solomon Awa and Jack Allakariallak from Iqaluit as they go out looking and tracking polar bears. They finds lots of tracks, and share their knowledge of what can be learned from these tracks and the environment around them.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 43s

    Tracking Polar Bears Outside Makkovik

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Tracking Polar Bears Outside Makkovik


    Inuit receiving one of the two polar bear licenses in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, have seven days to hunt a polar bear before the license is passed to another hunter. This video shares an experience of tracking polar bears outside of Makkovik.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 14s

    How to Use Polar Bear Fur

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    How to Use Polar Bear Fur

    This video features the voices of women from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, as they share their experiences with preparing polar bear fur. They offer insights into the cultural significance and techniques involved in working with polar bear fur, an important material for clothing and other items in Arctic life.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 45s

    Polar Bears: Voices from Pangnirtung

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Polar Bears: Voices from Pangnirtung

    Knowledge holders from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, reflect on changes they are witnessing relating to polar bears outside of their community. They discuss the importance of Inuit stewardship, and the history of living alongside polar bears.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 4m 56s

    Living With Polar Bears in Pangnirtung

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Living With Polar Bears in Pangnirtung

    As people hunt, fish, and trap on the land, they no longer feel the same sense of safety they once did. Bears are breaking into cabins, making experiences on the land more uncertain. In this video we hear from knowledge holders from Pangnirtung as they share their experiences with bears.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 50s

    Nippaq - The Seal Hole

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Nippaq - The Seal Hole

    The millennia-old relationship between Inuit and polar bears is cinematically explored through a shared source of food: seals. Bear and human hunters both wait patiently by the tiny breathing holes seals have carved into the frozen icescape. Through bears, Inuit have learned to be still, waiting for the rare moment to strike to eat and survive.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 5m 1s

    What Hunting Polar Bears Means for This Woman

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    What Hunting Polar Bears Mean For This Woman

    This narrative shares the experience of Melva and her family's experience trying to hunt a polar bear outside of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut. As a female hunter, Melva shares the cultural value of the hunt, and how the fur is now used as an educational resource for youth so that their connection to polar bears can be sustained.

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    uploaded date: 19-12-2024