Fulfilling an election promise to create a new regional economic development agency for the North, Stephen Harper will visit Canada's Arctic next month.
Nunavut Day, which is annually celebrated on July 9, commemorates
passing of two Nunavut acts. The Canadian Parliament passed the Nunavut
Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act on July 9, 1993. Nunavut
officially split from the Northwest Territories and became a Canadian
territory on April 1, 1999.
Officials with Air Greenland will travel to Nunavut this month to talk
about re-establishing direct flights between Iqaluit and the Greenland
capital of Nuuk, an idea that's supported by nearly 1,900 people on an
online group.
Health indicators among children in Nunavut are approaching the levels of those in Sri Lanka and Fiji, says Mary Simon, President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
Canada has the world's worst record among industrialized countries for emitting
greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming. Of all the
countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol, Canada's emissions rose the
fastest - faster than even U.S. emissions under George W. Bush.
Climate-change conference in Copenhagen may arrive at the right moment...
Nunavut debut for the Barry Greenwald’s powerful film at Alianait.
The 200-plus people, shivering inside the tent on a wet, windy
Sunday evening, erupted into spontaneous applause when, in a piece of
archival footage from one of the early 1980s constitutional conferences
on aboriginal rights, they saw a determined Nungak say this to ex-Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney:
Dans le cadre de Présence autochtone 2009, festival Terres en vues, Le Grand Prix Teueikan a été décerné au film Le jour avant le lendemain de Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Piujuq Ivalu.
Le nouveau chef du gouvernement local groenlandais, Kuupik Kleist, 51
ans, a été le grand vainqueur des élections législatives du 2 juin, son
parti Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA, extrême gauche) ayant remporté 44% des
voix.
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DIAMA preserves irreplaceable Inuit and Aboriginal media archives at risk of being lost. IsumaTV cleans, reformats, digitizes and uploads priceless audio-visual materials collected since the 1970s.… Uqalimakkanirit
Louis Tapardjuk speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21st, 2008. Louis Tapardjuk was born on January 30, 1953 in an igloo out on the sea ice near Igloolik, Nunavut where he later became Councillor and Mayor. Louis was elected to the 2nd Nunavut Legislature in the 2004 Territorial Elections.… Uqalimakkanirit
Svetlana Semenova speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21st, 2008. Svetlana Semenova has a PhD in Pedagogy with a major in indigenous education. Currently, she is head of the Federal State Institute of Nationalities’ Schools of the Republic of Saha-Yakutiya.
Lars Anders Baer speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21tst 2008. Lars Anders Baer is a reindeer herder and President of the Swedish Saami Parliament. He is also the Arctic representative at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.… Uqalimakkanirit
Gunn-Britt Retter speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008.
Gunn-Britt Retter is a Saami from the Varanger area on the coast of Northeast Norway. She is a teacher by training and holds a Master of Arts in Bilingual Studies from the University of Wales.… Uqalimakkanirit
Hishinlai’ Kathy R Sikorski speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Hishinlai’ Kathy R Sikorski studied linguistics and education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), receiving a Masters in Education in Curriculum and Instruction earlier this year. She is currently pursuing a PhD.… Uqalimakkanirit
An open discussion on the topic of "Indigenous Languages: an Important Key to Protecting the Arctic Environment" following the presenters on the topic at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008.
An open discussion about technology and media as tools to promote and strengthen indigenous languages following the presenters on the topic at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20, 2008.
This is an open discussion following the speakers of the second session of the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium on the topic of Protecting Culture and Transferring Knowledge followed by a talk by Carl Christian Olsen.
Carl Christian Olsen, born in Sisimiut, Greenland, Puju, completed his doctoral studies in linguistics in 1975 and has devoted much of his life to language issues.… Uqalimakkanirit
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