Inuit art curator wants to bring traditional art back to Canada’s eastern Arctic
The curator of Inuit art for the Government of Nunavut, in Northern Canada, has a job sorting through thousands Inuit
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Artist creates a 10-foot metal giant as an ode to Northern Canada trappers
Dolphus Cadieux, a Canadian artist from the Northwest Territories, has worked for the past 15 years on a 10 feet
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Blog – Franklin expedition: How a doomed Arctic voyage presaged transpolar flights
Last month, I flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on one of those sleek jets that fuse heaven and
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Inuit-produced, Haida-language Indigenous film gets recognized by Toronto International Film Festival
An internationally acclaimed producer from Igloolik, Nunavut, can add another accolade to his resumé — a Haida film that he
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Sámi-themed Finnish short film makes Sundance lineup
The Finnish short dance film Eatnanvuloš lottit (“Birds in the Earth”, 2018) by Sámi artist and director Marja Helander has
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Inuit carvings head to Northern Canada after decades in California
After decades in storage in a home in California, dozens of Inuit carvings have come home to Canada’s North. The
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Notable book recommendations from across northern Canada
The First Nations Book Fair (Kwahiatonhk: Salon du livre des Premières Nations) gets underway in the Canadian province of Quebec November
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Canadian Inuit rock band Northern Haze returns with first album in 33 years
The ground-breaking rockers from Igloolik, Nunavut are back. It’s been 33 years since Northern Haze recorded their first indigenous-language rock
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With one word a day, this man is teaching the world how to speak Inuktitut
Angus Andersen doesn’t have internet at home. Every day he goes to the mall, Tim Hortons, his favourite bakery in
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Renowned annual print collection by Canadian Inuit to launch October 20
The famed annual print collection from the Inuit community of Cape Dorset in Arctic Canada goes on sale Saturday and
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Atlas of Canada created by Indigenous people coming soon
Teachers, students and families across Canada will now have access to a map of the country that doesn’t include its
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Budget cuts threaten international Sámi language cooperation
The central organisation for coordinating all issues related to the indigenous Sámi languages in the Nordic countries may not be
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10,000 pages of Indigenous language material published online in Northwestern Canada
A collection of Yukon Indigenous language books has been scanned, organized and made freely available online. There’s at least 10,000
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Canadian Inuit language settings coming soon to Facebook
Facebook users could be clicking “piugijara” instead of the “like” button to show they support someone’s post by next year.
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Alaskan Inuit dialect added to Facebook’s Translate app
Facebook added Inupiaq, an Alaskan Inuit dialect, as a language option thanks to a grassroots project started by an Alaskan
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