Canadian Arctic

Program name: Unnukkut
Producer: Baker Lake - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Host: Peter Tapatai
Location: Baker Lake

Segment 1: An interview with bylaw officer, David Tagoonaaq (Tagoona) about bylaws and how they work.

Segment 2: An interview with Matila Bantila from Finland – he and his crew went to Baker Lake to film Arctic area land and animals.

During the 1950's famine in the Canadian Arctic, Kikkik, an Inuk woman killed a man in self defense and them found herself in the position of having to leave 2 of her 5 children on the tundra. She was tried for murder and criminal negligence and subsequently acquitted. Written by Elisapee Karetak, one of Kikkik's daughters.

Filmmaker: Martin Kreelak

Women of the Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq.

The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.

Filmmaker: Arnait Ikkagurtigitt Collective

Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment Indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial policies.… Read more