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.
I didn't expect that much success. It was the first feature film in
Inuktitut, by Inuit, and I was just aiming to see what mistakes we
would make and learn from them. Apparently we didn’t make any!
How important is the community to make Isuma successful?
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen takes place in Canada's remote northeastern Arctic during the early years of the 20th Century. 700 kilometres separates the trading post in Repulse Bay, at the base of Melville Peninsula, from the one at Pond's Inlet on the northern tip of Baffin Island. Between them ranges a vast uncharted wilderness whose centre is Igloolik.
My name is Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, and I was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland on June 7, 1879. I am of both Inuit and Danish descent and speak fluent Inuktitut. I am an experienced arctic traveler whose life's work has been dedicated to the study of the Eskimos.… Uqalimakkanirit
Friend of Atuat, sister of Oki. A lively, flirtatious,
sexy young woman who is always aware of male eyes on her. She's always ready to
play one man against the other.
Son of Sauri, he is an overbearing man who exudes a
brutal arrogance concealing perpetually wounded feelings. He is a jealous and
quick-tempered bully.
PETER HENRY ARNATSIAQ is Oki, Atanarjuat's lifelong rival
and enemy. Living in Igloolik as a full-time hunter, Atanarjuat was Peter
Henry's first acting experience.
Director, Producer, Co-Writer ZACHARIAS KUNUK, president of Igloolik Isuma Productions, was nine years old when … 
