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Arctic butterflies get the spotlight in new children’s book

20 August 201920 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Inhabit Media, insects, literature, nature, Nunavut, publishing

When most people think of Arctic nature, they usually think about ice and snow, seals and polar bears. But a

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Legacy of Inuk artist Itee Pootoogook explored in Canadian exhibition

19 August 201923 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, Cape Dorset, drawing, Nunavut, West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative

Inuk artist Itee Pootoogook (1951 – 2014) was well-known for his drawings of solitary figures or architecture placed amongst vast Arctic

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Blog – Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson lights up London’s Tate Modern

13 August 201916 August 2019 Mia Bennett 0 Comments art, London, Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern

Olafur Eliasson’s show at London’s Tate Modern passes Iceland’s landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of

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Hear Indigenous language speakers from around the globe through Google Earth

9 August 20199 August 2019 Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News 0 Comments Google, indigenous, indigenous languages, Internet

Users of Google Earth are now able to hear over 50 Indigenous language speakers from across the globe saying words

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Sweden, Norway team up to preserve ancient rock carvings

6 August 20196 August 2019 Frida Grönholm, Radio Sweden 0 Comments archeology, carvings, heritage, history

Sweden and Norway are working together to better preserve thousand-year-old rock carvings, like the ones found on runestones. Freezing water

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Twin Flames hope to use music to revitalize Indigenous languages, storytelling

5 August 20195 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, indigenous languages, Inuktitut, music

When Chelsey June and Jaaji take the stage as the band Twin Flames, they want to break down barriers and

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Non-fiction book about inuk residential school survivor from Atlantic Canada attracts readers in Poland

31 July 20192 August 2019 Katie Breen, CBC News 0 Comments books, indigenous, Inuit, Labrador, Poland, residential schools, Toby Obed

Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book

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Alien invasion hits community in Arctic Canada in filming of sci-fi movie

29 July 2019 CBC News 0 Comments cinema, indigenous, Inuit, movies, Nunavut, Pangnirtung

Teen girls are fighting against an alien invasion in the first feature movie to ever be filmed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

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Rules around wildlife photography in Canada’s Northwest Territories news to local photographer

29 July 2019 Mackenzie Scott, CBC News 0 Comments conservation, Inuvik, Northwest Territories, NWT, photography, wildlife

A photographer from Inuvik, N.W.T., got an unexpected phone call soon after recently using his drone to make a video

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Canadian exhibition showcases miniature carvings by Inuit artists

29 July 201929 July 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, Government of Nunavut Fine Arts Collection, Jocelyn Piirainen, Manitoba, Nunavut, WAG, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Large carvings are amongst the most iconic works produced by Inuit artists, but a new Canadian exhibition is casting a

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Walt Disney Animation Studios to release Saami-language version of “Frozen 2”

24 July 201926 July 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, entertainment, Finland, indigenous, languages, movies, nordic, Sweden, U.N. Year of Indigenous Languages

The sequel to the Walt Disney mega-hit film Frozen will also be available in the Saami language, Walt Disney Animation

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Brother of Superman actress Margot Kidder spreads her ashes in Northern Canada

5 July 2019 CBC News 0 Comments cinema, Labrador, Northwest Territories, NWT, Yellowknife

The brother of Superman actress Margot Kidder has returned to Yellowknife to spread some of his sister’s ashes in her

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Inuk soprano Deantha Edmunds, from Atlantic Canada, embraces all the things that make her who she is

1 July 201928 June 2019 Heather Barrett, CBC News 0 Comments Deantha Edmunds, indigenous, Inuit, Labrador, music

When Deantha Edmunds left her hometown of Corner Brook a few decades ago, she took a little bit of her

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Art exhibit in Alaska connects bird research to backyards

28 June 201928 June 2019 Amy Mostafa, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, birds, museums

Art and science may seem like very different disciplines. But they converge in a new exhibit in Anchorage, southcentral Alaska

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Archivists poring over 75,000 hours of stories in northern Indigenous languages collected by Canadian broadcaster

24 June 201921 June 2019 Alyssa Mosher, CBC News 0 Comments archives, CBC, history, indigenous, indigenous languages, media, Nunavut

About 65 years ago, Joe Kiloonik was hunting caribou near Taloyoak, Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, when he came across

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