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.
Atanarjuat was cast entirely with Inuit actors from Igloolik.
The cast were a mix of experienced and newly-initiated actors.
Natar Ungalaaq as Atanarjuat, and Paul and Mary Qulitalik as Qulitaliq
and Nuriuniq, for example, have previous credits in Claude Masson's
Kabloonak, CBC's Trial at Fortitude Bay and Turner Broadcasting's
Glory and Honor.
The sets for Atanarjuat were all authentic Inuit dwellings, made from
traditional natural materials such as ice blocks, animal skins, rocks, sod, and
snow. Igloos, for instance, were crafted from real snow blocks - not styrofoam
as in some Southern productions about life in the Arctic!
The wearer of this necklace is shaman and camp leader. It signifies
authority and supernatural power, commanding respect and obedience from the
rest of the camp's inhabitants.
