Iqaluit museum curator worries Inuit art gallery in southern Canada too far from home
It will be the world’s largest collection of contemporary Inuit art A new branch of the Winnipeg Art Gallery dedicated
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Culture (Canada)
Fort Good Hope to unveil world’s largest drum on winter road
Move over, Simcheon-Meon, South Korea. Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) will soon be home to the world’s largest drum.
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Eye on the Arctic report How not to promote Arctic tourism wins silver medal at Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Eye on the Arctic won the silver medal at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) in the Best Investigative
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Canadian First Nation wins award for work preserving Kaska Indigenous language
The Liard First Nation’s language department is being recognized by Canada’s premiers for decades of work done to promote and
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Film from Northwest Territories kicks off Canada-wide, pandemic-themed documentary series
In a remote camp in the Northwest territories, Melaw Nakehk’o documented her family passing time in isolation while the territory
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New podcast holds up Canadian Indigenous voices on climate change
A new podcast is bringing together Indigenous perspectives on climate change and decolonization. It’s called Story-telling/Story-listening: Decolonizing Research. It’s the brainchild
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New media company puts Canada’s Dene Indigenous narratives first, founder says
As the Wet’suwet’en Nation conflict over a gas pipeline in B.C. unfolded earlier this year, Tyra Moses, an N.W.T. woman with roots in
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College in Arctic Canada cancels training program for Inuktitut-speaking teachers this fall
Nunavut Arctic College is not offering a teacher training program for its first-year students this fall — a program seen
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Canada names final ship in its Arctic patrol fleet after WW II navy pilot
The Royal Canadian Navy says its sixth Arctic patrol vessel will be named after Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, a Second
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Artist from Canada’s Northwest Territories designs new Royal Canadian Mint collector coin
Inuvialuk artist Myrna Pokiak from Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) has designed the new collector coin for the Royal Canadian Mint to
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A film shows how Canadian Indigenous paddled over 500 km in a handmade mooseskin boat
Lawrence Nayally had never been in a mooseskin boat himself, but he grew up hearing about his grandfather’s adventures in
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Nunavut, Canada writer wins Indigenous creative non-fiction award
Nunavut, Canada writer and comedian Peter Igupttaq Autut has received the fifth annual Sally Manning Award for Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction,
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New online ‘handbook’ puts Canadian Indigenous history at your fingertips in Yukon
When Yukon University instructor Victoria Castillo and some colleagues decided they needed a new resource book for teaching Indigenous history in
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Nunavut throat singer Riit a finalist for the Canadian SOCAN Songwriting Prize
Inuk electropop musician Rita Claire Mike-Murphy is a finalist for this year’s SOCAN Songwriting Prize. This year is the 15th
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Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster
Nunavut is getting a new all-Inuktut TV channel this year. Inuit TV will have Inuktut programming in dialects from all Inuit
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