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Preserving Indigenous language, cultural teachings with tech in Northwestern Canada

Jasmine Kabatay, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:23
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Preserving language and culture is important for Indigenous people, and from creating language apps to cultural camps, there have been

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 15:21 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:37
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Nunavut is getting a new all-Inuktut TV channel this year. Inuit TV will have Inuktut programming in dialects from all Inuit

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

New cultural centre will help bridge generations say Inuit in Atlantic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 11:40 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 11:42
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A new Inuit cultural centre opened this month in Atlantic Canada, something community representatives believe is an important step to

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Finland ranks third, ahead of Sweden and Norway, in international pension study

Yle News
Posted: Monday, October 22, 2018 at 14:59
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An international study measuring retirement income systems of 34 different countries has ranked Finland as having the third-best in the

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Indigenous youth are taking pride in their heritage, speaker tells Elders and Youth conference in Alaska

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 11:26
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The 35th annual Elders and Youth conference finished Wednesday in Anchorage, southern Alaska. Liz Medicine Crow is the president of

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Keynote tells Elders and Youth conference in Alaska to move traditional knowledge forward

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 14:30 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 11:12
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The youth keynote address on day two of the Elders and Youth Conference, Tuesday, at the Dena’ina Convention Center in

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‘Our ancestors are our fire’: Elders and Youth conference hosted in southern Alaska

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 13:53
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Day one of the annual Elders and Youth conference wrapped up in Anchorage, southern Alaska on Monday. The annual conference

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

VIDEO: Do mobility devices in the Arctic need a rethink?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 27, 2017 at 18:25
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CAMBRIDGE BAY, Canada _ Recovering from knee surgery isn’t easy for anyone, but for Jimmy Okhina Sr., living in Arctic Canada

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A whalebone arch sits on the Barrow, Alaska shoreline. (Nicole Klauss / Kodiak Daily Mirror / AP)
General Society Society (USA) USA 

Arctic Alaskan city of Barrow votes to change name to Utqiagvik

Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, October 17, 2016 at 15:23
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Utqiagvik. That’s the name that Barrow will now be identified as. By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow

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Jill Kaasteen Meserve, 23, of Juneau, performs with the Woosh.ji.een Dance and Drum Group at the First Alaskans Institute Elders and Youth Conference on Wednesday. Meserve said she supported a bill passed this year recognizing 20 Alaska Native languages as official state languages. (Lisa Demer / Alaska Dispatch News)
General Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska bill to be signed recognizing indigenous languages as official state languages

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 19:11 — Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2014 at 21:27
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If the legislation to recognize 20 Alaska Native languages as official state languages was wrought with emotion, the ceremony to

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A gravesite outside the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Nikolai. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska village mulls reversing alcohol ban

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 10:22
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One Alaska village awaiting the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the festive mood it always brings is also grappling

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“The Traditional Foods Nourishment Act of 2013” would make it easier to serve Alaska Native foods in facilities like hospitals and schools. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch )
Society Society (USA) USA 

New effort to bring Native foods to plates across Alaska

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, August 12, 2013 at 09:32
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For years, leaders in the Alaska Native community have tried to negotiate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for permission

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Photo by Sara Bernard, APRN Anchorage
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Alaskans mourn elder who fought for subsistence rights

APRN
Posted: Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 10:08 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:39
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By Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage and Daysha Eaton, KSKA – Anchorage A public memorial service for Ahtna elder Katie

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