IN THE NEWS
May 17, 2022
CBC News
New cultural centre is on its way to Cambridge Bay
Building will help keep Inuinnaqtun language and culture
April 22, 2022
PI/KHS Press Release
Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society’s construction of a “green” cultural workspace to change the game for sustainable infrastructure in the Arctic
Unveiling: Kuugalak, designed and developed with the latest green energy technologies and rooted in our culture
January 18, 2022
The National Post
Making a deeper difference
Bell Let’s Talk $5 million Diversity Fund supports multi-year Black, Indigenous and People of Colour-led projects
November 27, 2021
El Pais
Internet: the last trench to preserve the cultural heritage of a small Inuit community
The Kitikmeot Heritage Society started a project 15 years ago to preserve the names of places, objects or songs of the Inuinnait on digital platforms. The next step is to return them to the real world.
August 31, 2021
PI/KHS Press Release
PI/KHS Board of Directors Names Inuinnaqtun Leader Emily Angulalik New Executive Director!
"The Executive Director has a vital role in our organization and to the people it serves, working to nurture our language and culture. Working with Emily, we will continue to follow our vision to carry out programming for our future generations"
June 30, 2021
Journal of Commerce
Nunavut community building a green pilot project in Canada's Far North
The idea is to develop not just one sustainable project in the community but rather to establish a new way of looking at the design and construction of buildings in the Far North where often southern Canada’s building standard is the norm.
May 29, 2021
Nunatsiaq News
Western Nunavut's Emily Angulalik up for an Inspire Award
Emily Angulalik, president of the Kitikmeot Heritage Society in Cambridge Bay, is one of 12 Indigenous Canadians nominated this year for an Indspire award in the culture, heritage and spirituality category.
May 18, 2021
PI/KHS Media Release
PI/KHS teaming up with Southern Alberta Institute of Technology to design and construct a pilot green building in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
We are excited to share that we are undertaking a pilot project to bring new green energy technologies and materials to the Arctic, integrating them with local knowledge and priorities.
April 2, 2021
The Globe and Mail
Inuit work to revitalize endangered dialect
It’s the heritage society’s 25th anniversary this year and keeping Inuinnaqtun not only alive, but getting it off the endangered list is the priority for the next 25 years.
March 16, 2021
CANADAHELPS BLOG POST
Supporting Healing Through Language and Culture Renewal in the Central Canadian Arctic
As we look to reconciliation, reclaiming and retaining our identity by passing on and learning our language and culture is at the heart of our healing.
March 8, 2021
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Heritage society marks 25 years with campaigns to preserve Inuinnaqtun
‘We are waking up our souls, longing to speak the language,’ says Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq’s director
February 16, 2021
NUNAVUT NEWS
Kitikmeot Heritage Society fast approaching 25th anniversary
The society was incorporated on Mar. 6, 1996, and there is much to celebrate and to look
back upon from the past quarter-century.
January 16, 2021
CTV News
Sun returns to some Nunavut communities for first time in weeks
A sliver of orange rose over Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, earlier this week, tinting the sky pink and the snow a purple hue.
October 3, 2020
CBC NEWS
Meet Cambridge Bay coffee company Kaapittiaq's first full-time employee
Margaret Qutiaquq Oliver is learning the coffee production process in Barrie, Ont.
September 21, 2020
CBC NEWS
Danish national museum removes outdated term from Arctic exhibits
Will be replaced by 'Inuit' and 'Inuk" or more specific regional names
June 11, 2020
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Western Nunavut’s Kaapittiaq coffee venture launches online storefront
No matter where you live in North America, now you can enjoy a cup of Kaapittiaq—good coffee in Inuinnaqtun.
June 8, 2020
NUNAVUT NEWS
Kitikmeot heritage coffee sales brewing online
Coffee sales have commenced online for Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq, the Kitikmeot Heritage Society, based in Cambridge Bay.
January 20, 2020
INUIT ART QUARTERLY
Library and Archives Canada Designates More Than $350,000 in Funding for Inuit Arts Organizations
Library and Archives Canada has announced the recipients of grant money through the Listen, Hear Our Voices Initiative
December 11, 2019
NNSL MEDIA
Inuinnaqtun mentorship program to be introduced
Some of the shrinking number of Inuinnaqtun speakers in the Kitikmeot are being recruited to act as mentors to apprentices who want to learn the Inuit language.
December 3, 2019
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Nunavut's Reel to Reel program puts youth in touch with Elders
The project aims to strengthen intergenerational connections by having youth make short films about elders’ lives.
November 11, 2019
CBC NEWS
How one Nunavut community's elders connect youth with Inuit culture
Colonialism has left some young Inuit in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, struggling to connect with their culture. But a group of grandmothers is fighting to change that.
October 25, 2019
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
300-year-old qulliq returns to western Nunavut
The qulliq was used at the opening the Canadian High Arctic Research Station and is now on display at the May Hakongak Cultural Centre and Library in Cambridge Bay.
October 3, 2019
CBC NEWS
Exhibit reunites Inuit with 100-year-old artifacts in Cambridge Bay
'They just were so creative and ingenious ... it's so beautiful,' says Kitikmeot Heritage Society director
October 1, 2019
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Inuit take the lead in Inuit Studies conference
Inuit are now leading our own research and are able to present our own findings
September 19, 2019
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Exhibition on Inuinnait parkas launches in Nunavut
Patterns of Change is now available online as a virtual exhibition
June 6, 2019
NUNAVUT NEWS
Canada goose fabric given away in Cambridge Bay
More than 100 eager sewers showed up at Kiilinik Ilihakvik School for a Canada goose fabric giveaway in Cambridge Bay
April 30, 2019
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Western Nunavut heritage group aims to save Inuinnaqtun
"We need to start somewhere and this is our somewhere"
April 24, 2019
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Parks Canada, Nunavut heritage trust sign deal on Franklin artifacts
Agreement with ensure management of artifacts is Inuit-informed, representatives say
January 27, 2019
CBC NEWS
Inuit-owned coffee company open for business in Cambridge Bay
The company's name, Kaapittiaq, means 'good coffee' in Inuinnaqtun
January 6, 2019
CBC NEWS
Cambridge Bay exhibit to showcase the evolution of parkas
5 Inuinnait parkas from pre-contact to present will be on display in the Kitikmeot Heritage Society museum
November 22, 2018
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Arctic Inspiration Prize announces shortlist for up to $3M in awards
Expansion of Pond Inlet pre-school, Inuinnaqtun revitalization project up for $1M prize
November 15, 2018
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Meet Nunavut's first Inuit-owned coffee company: Kaapittiaq
The world's first Inuit-owned coffee produced specifically for a northern market
August 5, 2018
CBC NEWS
Project to preserve traditional knowledge sparks memories at Bathurst Inlet
'It was so beautiful to see them remembering' says head of Kitikmeot Heritage Society
September 28, 2017
PERU REPORTS
Two indigenous communities from different hemispheres have teamed up
An Inuit-run coffee company has teamed up with Indigenous farmers in Peru to support the preservation of indigenous culture in two opposites spheres of the world
June 20, 2017
OTTAWA CITIZEN
Telling their own stories: new gallery reveals the land, people of the Arctic
A new gallery at the Museum of Nature opening Wednesday marks Canada’s 150th birthday by documenting the region that makes up four-tenths of it but too few of us will venture to visit
April 4, 2017
CBC NEWS
'We're trying to make it look like us': Kitikmeot Inuit history to go on display at Arctic research station
3 wall hangings show life before trading, during the 1950s, and in Cambridge Bay today
April 3, 2017
CBC NEWS
Arctic Gallery at Canadian Museum of Nature prepares for June opening
New permanent gallery will include a space for exhibitions by Northern communities
May 26, 2016
SCIENCE NORDIC
Inuit reclaim cultural heritage in new digital atlas
GREENLAND: The legendary fifth expedition of Thule by the Polar explorer, Knud Rasmussen, is now digitised in an interactive online atlas
May 19, 2016
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Nunavut historical society to produce CHARS research guide
"Local people have much to teach incoming researchers" at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station
April 25, 2016
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Nunavut Inuit culture featured in line Rasmussen atlas
Denmark, Ottawa, Nunavut collaborate on huge cultural database
April 23, 2016
CBC NEWS
New online atlas connects Inuit with lost history of Knud Rasmussen expedition
Provides wider access to data and photos collected in the 1920s
April 14, 2016
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Western Nunavut elders heal old wounds during Edmonton visit
Ninety-eight Inuit never returned from Charles Camsell Hospital
April 28, 2016
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Canadian High Arctic Research Station seeks art designs
Proposals should reflect "ingenuity of Inuit culture"
February 28, 2016
ABOVE AND BEYOND
Historical Traditions: Reviving Amulet Use in the Central Arctic
An article written for Above & Beyond | Canada's Arctic Journal, by Brendan Griebel. See pages 37 - 39.
April 12, 2016
NFB BLOG
Inuit Culture, Living History
Featured in the National Film Board’s (NFB) Blog, we contributed to the organization’s educational curriculum titled Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories collection
January 21, 2016
YOUTUBE
We Live in the Arctic, 1947
Aa silent film by Harmon “Bud” Helmericks and Constance Helmericks, circa 1947. In 2015, the original 16mm film was preserved by the Alaska Film Archives
October 25, 2015
ABOVE AND BEYOND
Diamond Jenness Artifact collection
An article written for Above and Beyond | Canada's Arctic Journal by Brendan Griebel. See pages 31-35.
October 22, 2015
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
Building for the future" Nunavut Heritage Society looks back for answers
New project to focus on Inuit architectural wisdom
August 18, 2015
CBC NEWS
Copper Inuit kayak removed safely from Edmonton basement
A traditional Inuit kayak that spent the last 50 years in an Edmonton basement is on its way back to Nunavut
August 17, 2015
THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
Mystery kayak in Edmonton basement for decades returning home to Nunavut
Since the late 1960s, a caribou skin "mystery" kayak has resided in a house on Wellington Crescent across the street from the Royal Alberta Museum
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL
Canada Over the Edge: S4 E5 Western Nunavut
The western Nunavut region is one of the most seldom-seen landscapes on Earth
September 14, 2015
NUNAVUT NEWS/NORTH
Healing journey for elders on the land
Emotional time spent early outposts in Queen Maud Gulf
August 30, 2015
Heritage in 360 Degrees
An innovative heritage project to investigate the potential that 360 degree photography has for recording and communicating Inuit place-based knowledge
April 1, 2014
EVERGREEN BRICKWORKS BLOG
Learning to live from the land improves food security in Nunavut
Our 2013 summer land camp was featured in the Evergreen Foundation's blog
April 21, 2012
CBC NEWS
Northern elders view artifacts at British Museum
A trip by Inuinnait from Ulukhaktok and Cambridge Bay is part of literacy project