Feature Interview: Canadian artist explores Greenland’s past
Jessica Auer, a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal, Quebec, still remembers the first time she visited L’Anse aux Meadows
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Arctic mural underway in Toronto, Canada
A giant wall mural by Arctic artists finally got underway in Canada’s largest city of Toronto on Thursday. Artists Patrick
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Sámi classes breathe new life into Finland’s rarest languages
By Maura Forrest and Lily Haines | Barents Observer In Inari, Finland, the Sámi Education Institute is teaching young people to
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Feature Interview: Arctic hamlet drives cultural centre campaign
Kinngait Studios is legendary in Canadian art circles. It’s housed in the small, ramshackle couple of buildings that stand across
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Social media strengthens Sami language
A new survey shows that the Sami language is getting a boost – in social media. The study, carried out at
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Inuit-language movie named best Canadian film of all time by TIFF
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, a 2001 Inuit-language movie by Nunavut director Zacharias Kunuk topped the most recent Toronto International Film
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New evidence of prehistoric trade with Asia found at Alaska site
Four years ago, archaeologists announced they had found evidence on the Alaska side of the Bering Strait of trade with
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Spotlight: Montreal, Canada exhibit focuses on art by Inuit women
A unique exhibit focusing on works by Inuit women is underway at a Montreal, Canada gallery this month. Titled Inuit
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‘Ultimate Survival Alaska’ star James Sweeney has mixed feelings about reality TV fame
If you’ve watched the reality TV show “Ultimate Survival Alaska,” you know James Sweeney. In a field of mild, mostly
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Native artifacts stolen from Bethel, Alaska health corporation headquarters
BETHEL — Native artifacts and artwork were stolen from display cases at the administrative headquarters of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp., a discovery
Read moreTHE REBEL – Jutai Toonoo
Artists often say they create art for themselves and don’t care what other people think. But when Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn tracked down Jutai Toonoo working in Nunavut’s Kinngait Studios in 2010, we got the sense that he really, really meant it.
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London gallery offers multimedia Sámi art
Outi Pieski’s work evokes the bleak snowscapes of the polar north and indigenous Sámi culture stretching back thousands of years.
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Polar Sea : major new Arctic adventure, science, social documentary series
A new documentary film series is part crazy sailing adventure and part environmental film showing the rapid and drastic changes
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Russia’s Arctic culture heritage sites get protection
This abandoned polar hydrometrological station at Cape Menshikova on Novaya Zemlya can be declared a culture heritage site as Arkhangelsk
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Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq wins Canada’s prestigious Polaris Prize
Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq was awarded Canada’s prestigious Polaris Prize Monday night (September 22) for her album Animism besting
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