federal government

Program name: Unnukkut
Unnukkut was a current events program for a general audience produced in Baker Lake. It features interviews with politicians and other current events items and stories in Nunavut.
Producer: Baker Lake - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Location: Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
Host: Peter Tapatai… Read more

Aboriginal Rights in the Constitution - 1981

Host: Peter Tapatai
Location: Baker Lake (Qamanittuaq)

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..