Quebec Government recognizes throat singing
Just last week, the government in the French speaking province of Quebec recognized Inuit throat singing as an official part
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Northern cinema celebrated in Yukon
The Available Light Film Festival, now in its twelfth year, began on Sunday in Whitehorse, the capital of Canada’s northwestern
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Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq on reclaiming Nanook of the North
By Holly Gordon, CBC Music Tanya Tagaq doesn’t mince words. Asked about her impressions of Nanook of the North, a
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New app teaches Inuktitut through song
No language is easy to learn, but Inuktitut? Many a langauge student has been sidelined by the complex sounds and
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Alaska: Rare Tlingit helmet object of repatriation effort
Tribal leaders are hoping a rare Tlingit war helmet that sat mislabeled in museum archives in western Massachusetts for more
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Feature Interview: Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin
The Canadian exhibition, Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, winds up its three-month run at the Musée d’art
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Nunavut photographer finalist in international contest
A photographer from the community of Arctic Bay, in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, is a finalist in
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Restoring the Tagish role in the Klondike gold rush
An author from Anchorage, Alaska is getting set to release a new biography that restores the reputation of some of
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Renowned Siberian ivory carvers turn to printmaking with help from Alaska, Canada
The Chukchi people of Uelen, a tiny village on the Russian side of the Bering Strait and the Russian mainland
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Concern for elves holds up Iceland road project
In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories
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Savoonga, Alaska whales fulfill musical needs
Savoonga, a community on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska harvested two bowhead whales last week, both of them female. While the
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Alaska: Thanksgiving by the numbers
Around the United States, Thanksgiving is a time of food, friends and family. In Alaska, it’s no different. Alaska is
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BLOG: Short film follow-up to “Gravity” connects the final and “last” frontiers
Last month, audiences flocked to see the film Gravity, a thriller set in the final frontier of outer space. [Note:
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Inuk artist’s design appears on new Canadian quarter
The Royal Canadian Mint started circulating 25 million quarters this week with images of the Arctic. Half of the coins
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FEATURE INTERVIEW: Inuk aritst Mark Igloliorte on how skateboarding inspires his work
Mark Igloliorte is an Inuk artist from Nunatsiavut, the Inuit self-governing region in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and
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