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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Hear Indigenous language speakers from around the globe through Google Earth

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 9, 2019 at 13:26 — Last Updated: Friday, August 9, 2019 at 13:44
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Users of Google Earth are now able to hear over 50 Indigenous language speakers from across the globe saying words

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Culture Culture (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden, Norway team up to preserve ancient rock carvings

Frida Grönholm, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 11:48 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 13:51
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

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

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 5, 2019 at 16:38 — Last Updated: Monday, August 5, 2019 at 16:40
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When Chelsey June and Jaaji take the stage as the band Twin Flames, they want to break down barriers and

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

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

Katie Breen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 09:58 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 09:37
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Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

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

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 14:51
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Teen girls are fighting against an alien invasion in the first feature movie to ever be filmed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

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Art Art (Canada) Canada Culture General 

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

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 14:12
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) 

Canadian exhibition showcases miniature carvings by Inuit artists

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 08:22 — Last Updated: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 10:56
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Large carvings are amongst the most iconic works produced by Inuit artists, but a new Canadian exhibition is casting a

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Culture Culture (Norway) General Norway 

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

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 09:37 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:40
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

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

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 16:35
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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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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

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

Heather Barrett, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 1, 2019 at 06:30
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When Deantha Edmunds left her hometown of Corner Brook a few decades ago, she took a little bit of her

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Culture Culture (USA) General USA 

Art exhibit in Alaska connects bird research to backyards

Amy Mostafa, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2019 at 16:31
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Art and science may seem like very different disciplines. But they converge in a new exhibit in Anchorage, southcentral Alaska

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

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

Alyssa Mosher, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 24, 2019 at 14:00
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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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Culture Culture (Finland) Finland General 

Finnish Heritage Agency scouring countryside for ancient monuments

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 14:44
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The Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) is conducting a nationwide field inspection of ancient monuments protected by the government. The Nationally

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

A problem of popularity: How Canada’s northern musicians are hurt by lack of access

Jackson Weaver, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 11:41
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Andrew Morrison of The Jerry Cans is setting up to play what would be — for most bands with their

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Art Art (Canada) Canada Culture General 

Canadian Heritage to contribute funding to travelling Kenojuak Ashevak exhibition

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 12:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 14:19
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The federal Department of Canadian Heritage is contributing $464,000 to help fund a travelling exhibition featuring the work of Kenojuak

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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