Uvagut Archives

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  51m 23s

  Ajainaa! (Almost!)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Ajainaa! features Igloolik Elders discussing their views of contemporary Inuit life. Topics include the role of Inuit and "Southern" forms of education, survival strategies (such as how to save a drowning victim), and the differences between camp and settlement life. Written, produced, and performed by Isuma's Uqallangniq Elders Group.

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  48m 15s

  Nanugiurutiga (My First Polar Bear)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

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  Nanugiurutiga (My First Polar Bear), Igloolik Isuma Productions 2000, Director Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut w/English s-t.

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  50m 45s

  Nipi (Voice)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands.… Uqalimakkanirit

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  52m 32s

  Arviq! (Bowhead!)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  In 1994, fulfilling the wish of 94 year-old Noah Piugattuk to taste whale-skin maqtaq once again before he passes away, a group of Igloolik hunters illegally catches a bowhead whale after years of government prohibition. This event which sparks a legal controversy, the hunters are charged, government policy is resisted, then changed..

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  30m 35s

  Saputi (Fish Traps)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter and young people daydream, while waiting for fish to come. But nature is not always predictable....

   

   

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  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  58m 23s

  Qaggiq (Gathering Place)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes...

  … Uqalimakkanirit