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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.
NNSL MEDIA
11 DECEMBER 2019
Inuinnaqtun mentorship program to be introduced
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.
CBC NEWS
11 NOVEMBER 2019
How one Nunavut community's elders connect youth with Inuit culture
'They just were so creative and ingenious ... it's so beautiful,' says Kitikmeot Heritage Society director
CBC NEWS
3 OCTOBER 2019
Exhibit reunites Inuit with 100-year-old artifacts in Cambridge Bay
Inuit are now leading our own research and are able to present our own findings
Nunatsiaq News
1 OCTOBER 2019
Inuit take the lead in Inuit Studies conference
Patterns of Change is also viewable online
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
19 SEPTEMBER 2019
Exhibition on Inuinnait parkas launches in Nunavut
More than 100 eager sewers showed up at Kiilinik Ilihakvik for a Canada Goose fabric giveaway in Cambridge Bay during the evening of June 4
NUNAVUT NEWS
6 JUNE 2019
Canada Goose fabric given away in Cambridge Bay
“We need to start somewhere and this is our somewhere”
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
30 APRIL 2019
Western Nunavut heritage group aims to save Inuinnaqtun
Agreement will ensure managed of artifacts is Inuit-informed, representatives say
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
24 APRIL 2019
Parks Canada, Nunavut heritage trust sign deal on Franklin artifacts
5 Inuinnait parkas from pre-contact to present will be on display in the Kitikmeot Heritage Society museum
CBC NEWS
06 January 2019
Cambridge Bay exhibit to showcase the evolution of parkas
"The world’s first Inuit-owned coffee produced specifically for a northern market"
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NUNATSIAQ NEWS
15 November 2018
Meet Nunavut’s first Inuit-owned coffee company: Kaapittiaq
Expansion of Pond Inlet pre-school, Inuinnaqtun revitalization project up for $1M prize
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
22 November 2018
Arctic Inspiration Prize announces shortlist for up to $3M in awards
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
PERU REPORTS
28 September 2017
Two indigenous communities from different hemispheres have teamed up
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
OTTAWA CITIZEN
20 June 2017
Telling their own stories: new gallery reveals the land, people of the Arctic
New permanent gallery will include a space for exhibitions by Northern communities
CBC NEWS
3 April 2017
Arctic Gallery at Canadian Museum of Nature prepares for June opening
GREENLAND: The legendary fifth expedition of Thule by the Polar explorer, Knud Rasmussen, is now digitised in an interactive online atlas
SCIENCENORDIC
26 MAY 2016
Inuit reclaim cultural heritage in new digital atlas
"Local people have much to teach incoming researchers" at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
19 May 2016
Nunavut historical society to produce CHARS research guide
The company's name, Kaapittiaq, means 'good coffee' in Inuinnaqtun
CBC NEWS
27 January 2019
Inuit-owned coffee company open for business in Cambridge Bay
Denmark, Ottawa, Nunavut collaborate on huge cultural database
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
25 April 2016
Nunavut Inuit culture featured in online Rasmussen atlas
Provides wider access to data and photos collected in 1920s
CBC NEWS
23 April 2016
New online atlas connects Inuit with lost history of Knud Rasmussen expedition
Ninety-eight Inuit never returned from Charles Camsell Hospital
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
14 April 2016
Western Nunavut elders heal old wounds during Edmonton visit
Proposals should reflect "ingenuity of Inuit culture"
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
28 April 2016
Canadian High Arctic Research Station seeks art designs
An article written for Above & Beyond | Canada's Arctic Journal by Brendan Griebel. See pages 37-39.
ABOVE AND BEYOND | CANADA'S ARCTIC JOURNAL
28 February 2016
Historical Traditions: Reviving Amulet Use in the Central Arctic
Featured in the National Film Board’s (NFB) Blog, Pamela Gross and Brendan Griebel of the PI/KHS contributed to the organization’s educational curriculum titled Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories collection
NFB BLOG
12 April 2016
Inuit Culture, Living History
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
YOUTUBE
21 January 2016
We Live in the Arctic, 1947
An article written for Above and Beyond | Canada's Arctic Journal by Brendan Griebel. See pages 31-35.
ABOVE AND BEYOND | CANADA'S ARCTIC JOURNAL
25 October 2015
Diamond Jenness Artifact collection
New project to focus on Inuit architectural wisdom
NUNATSIAQ NEWS
22 October 2015
Building for the future: Nunavut Heritage Society looks back for answers
A traditional Inuit kayak that spent the last 50 years in an Edmonton basement is on its way back to Nunavut
CBC NEWS
18 August 2015
Copper Inuit kayak removed safely from Edmonton basement
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
THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
17 August 2015
Mystery kayak in Edmonton basement for decades returning home to Nunavut
The western Nunavut region is one of the most seldom-seen landscapes on Earth
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL
Canada Over the Edge: S4 E5 Western Nunavut
Emotional time spent at early outposts in Queen Maud Gulf
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NUNAVUT NEWS/NORTH
14 September 2015
Healing journey for elders on the land
An innovative heritage recording research project to investigate the potential that 360Ëš photography has for the recording and communication of Inuit place-based knowledge
30 August 2015
Heritage In 360Ëš Degrees
Our 2013 summer land camp was featured in the Evergreen Foundation’s on-line blog. The Living From The Land project was Evergreen’s first-ever grant recipient in Nunavut
EVERGREEN BRICKWORKS BLOG
1 April 2014