Uvagut Archives

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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..

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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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  28m 51s

  Umiaq Part 1

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Paul Apak Expedition Videos

  Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Isuma. Apak began his career in 1978 as a trainee in Canada's Inukshuk Project, the first project to train indigenous TV producers in remote communities.

  Year of Production: 2009

  Country: Canada

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  28m 51s

  Umiaq Part 2

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Paul Apak Expedition Videos

  Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Isuma. Apak began his career in 1978 as a trainee in Canada's Inukshuk Project, the first project to train indigenous TV producers in remote communities.

  Year of Production: 2009

  Country: Canada

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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...

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  29m 31s

  Qitdlassuaq Part 1

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Paul Apak Expedition Videos

  Qitdlassuaq Part 1, Igloolik Isuma Productions, IBC, 1987. Director Paul Apak Angilirq. Inuktut.

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  29m 20s

  Qitdlassuaq Part 2

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Paul Apak Expedition Videos

  Qitdlassuaq Part 2, Igloolik Isuma Productions, IBC, 1987. Director Paul Apak Angilirq. Inuktut.

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  29m 20s

  Qitdlassuaq Part 3

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Paul Apak Expedition Videos

  Qitdlassuaq Part 3, Igloolik Isuma Productions, IBC, 1987. Director Paul Apak Angilirq. Inuktut.

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  29m 20s

  Qitdlassuaq Part 4

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Paul Apak Expedition Videos

  Qitdlassuaq Part 4, Igloolik Isuma Productions, IBC, 1987. Director Paul Apak Angilirq. Inuktut.

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