Nunatinni (At Our Place) 44a Part 1, March 16, 2004.
NITV 2004, Host Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut. Broadcast Live March 16, 2004. Local news and culture from Igloolik. Stories about ice fishing and seal hunting.
The University of Regina has used video material featuring aboriginal people as a base for constructing teaching resources and we invite teachers to use these resources. We also encourage teachers to use this video material to construct their own lessons.
An introduction to the DIAMA/IsumaTV and the Inuit Culture Education was made to the principal and teachers of Ataguttaaluk
Elementary School and High School in Igloolik. Two classes at the Elementary school and two classes of the High School had the chance to use the Inuit
Culture Education website.
Kelly Quewezance is a member of the Keeseekoose First Nation
in Saskatchewan. He has a degree in Social Work from the University of Regina.
In the video clips he describes his role in distributing Treaty Annuity
Payments as the North Band Governance officer of Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada (INAC).
On a rainy evening in August 2009 Tim Haywahe from Carry the
Kettle First Nation in southern Saskatchewan led a group of Little Sisters
through a tipi raising on the grounds of the First Nations University of
Canada. During this process he talked to the girls about his traditional Nakota
way of raising the tipi.
An evil shaman. An odd yet mild-looking man who can
transform his features into pure evil. This mysterious stranger is unrelated to
either family but brings evil to them both.
ABRAHAM ULAYURULUK is a hunter, carver, and respected
Igloolik Elder
After completing “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner,” set in the mythological past in a community whose balance of life had not changed for 4,000 years, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn chose to depict a series of events that took place in 1922, when Shamanism was replaced by Christianity – and the balance of life was changed forev… Read more
When I met Captain George C. Comer, we were on his whaling schooner Era, a week's hard travel to the south of my home in Iglulik, where I lived with my brother Aua, a shaman like me, and our families. Comer showed me a chart of the new syllabic alphabet the missionaries invented to write our language, Inuktitut, for the first time.… Read more
My name is Nuqallak, and I am the son of Umik. When I was 20 years old, I worked on the whaling schooner of Captain George C. Comer, along with Apak, who was my first sweetheart. Apak and I almost married when she was a teenager, but Aua, her father, didn't approve and kicked me out of camp.… Read more
My name is Umik and I am a Prophet and leader among the Iglulik people. My son Nuqallaq and I converted to Christianity and now my work is to bring others to Jesus. This is a difficult task at times as many elders, such as Aua, do not believe in the ways of Jesus. As they will learn, all Christians take care of each other.… Read more
My father is Aua, a great and powerful shaman, and I too have the power to call spirits. My father and I argue and he thinks I waste this power, for I use it only to spend time with my dead husband. My first sweetheart, Nuqallaq, was kicked out of camp when I was a teenager, and I soon fell in love and married.… Read more
I am called Orulu, and I was born at the mouth of Admiralty Inlet. While I was still a little child carried on my mother's back, my parents left Baffin Land and settled at Iglulik.… Read more
Before I was born, my mother was cursed by an evil shaman who whispered in her ear, 'All your children will be born dead!' and it was so. But when my mother broke taboo, I began struggling and kicking to get out through her navel, a sensitiveness that was a sign I should live to become a great shaman.… Read more
My name is Therkel Mathiassen and I was born on September 5, 1892. I became an archaeologist and traveled with my friend and fellow explorer, Knud Rasmussen through the Arctic. In 1922, Knud and I were members of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition.… Read more
