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Cambridge Bay cultural centre replicates feel of igloos and skin tents

Kitikmeot Heritage Society says it’s ‘one way to preserve our language’

PI/KHS cultural campus or an Inuit-led suicide prevention project could get a $1-million boost through the annual Arctic Inspiration Prize.

Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society, the Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities announced the launch of the Nunamiutuqaq – Building from the Land

Arnaqarvik was a grassroots arts collective established 50 years ago

One of four crates disappeared on its way back to Judy McGrath

Building will help keep Inuinnaqtun language and culture

Unveiling: Kuugalak, designed and developed with the latest green energy technologies and rooted in our culture

Bell Let’s Talk $5 million Diversity Fund supports multi-year Black, Indigenous and People of Colour-led projects

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.

"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"

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

‘We are waking up our souls, longing to speak the language,’ says Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq’s director

The society was incorporated on Mar. 6, 1996, and there is much to celebrate and to look
back upon from the past quarter-century.

A sliver of orange rose over Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, earlier this week, tinting the sky pink and the snow a purple hue.

Margaret Qutiaquq Oliver is learning the coffee production process in Barrie, Ont. 
 

Will be replaced by 'Inuit' and 'Inuk" or more specific regional names
 

No matter where you live in North America, now you can enjoy a cup of Kaapittiaq—good coffee in Inuinnaqtun.

Coffee sales have commenced online for Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq, the Kitikmeot Heritage Society, based in Cambridge Bay.

Library and Archives Canada has announced the recipients of grant money through the Listen, Hear Our Voices Initiative

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.

The project aims to strengthen intergenerational connections by having youth make short films about elders’ lives. 

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.

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. 

'They just were so creative and ingenious ... it's so beautiful,' says Kitikmeot Heritage Society director

Inuit are now leading our own research and are able to present our own findings

Patterns of Change is now available online as a virtual exhibition

More than 100 eager sewers showed up at Kiilinik Ilihakvik School for a Canada goose fabric giveaway in Cambridge Bay 

"We need to start somewhere and this is our somewhere"

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Agreement with ensure management of artifacts is Inuit-informed, representatives say

The company's name, Kaapittiaq, means 'good coffee' in Inuinnaqtun

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5 Inuinnait parkas from pre-contact to present will be on display in the Kitikmeot Heritage Society museum

Expansion of Pond Inlet pre-school, Inuinnaqtun revitalization project up for $1M prize

The world's first Inuit-owned coffee produced specifically for a northern market

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'It was so beautiful to see them remembering' says head of Kitikmeot Heritage Society

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

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

3 wall hangings show life before trading, during the 1950s, and in Cambridge Bay today

New permanent gallery will include a space for exhibitions by Northern communities

GREENLAND: The legendary fifth expedition of Thule by the Polar explorer, Knud Rasmussen, is now digitised in an interactive online atlas

"Local people have much to teach incoming researchers" at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station 

Denmark, Ottawa, Nunavut collaborate on huge cultural database

Provides wider access to data and photos collected in the 1920s

Ninety-eight Inuit never returned from Charles Camsell Hospital

Proposals should reflect "ingenuity of Inuit culture"

An article written for Above & Beyond | Canada's Arctic Journal, by Brendan Griebel. See pages 37 - 39. 

Featured in the National Film Board’s (NFB) Blog, we contributed to the organization’s educational curriculum titled Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories collection 

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

An article written for Above and Beyond | Canada's Arctic Journal by Brendan Griebel. See pages 31-35.

New project to focus on Inuit architectural wisdom

A traditional Inuit kayak that spent the last 50 years in an Edmonton basement is on its way back 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

The western Nunavut region is one of the most seldom-seen landscapes on Earth

Emotional time spent early outposts in Queen Maud Gulf

An innovative heritage project to investigate the potential that 360 degree photography has for recording and communicating Inuit place-based knowledge

Our 2013 summer land camp was featured in the Evergreen Foundation's blog

A trip by Inuinnait from Ulukhaktok and Cambridge Bay is part of literacy project