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Arctic Canada: Proposed bill won’t uphold Inuit language rights in Nunavut, education board says

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2019 at 13:29
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A Nunavut, Arctic Canada education group is calling out a “huge inequality” between language groups in Nunavut’s current education act,

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How a group of grandmothers is reconnecting youth with Inuit culture in Arctic Canada

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 08:00
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Bessie Pihoak Omilgoetok’s worn fingers delicately tease pieces of white Arctic cotton before placing them in her qulliq — an

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Inuit art, culture and language: Selected reports

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 00:01
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Thursday was International Inuit Day, a celebration set up to acknowledge and celebrate Inuit culture and contributions. To mark this

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Canada’s Northwest Territories launching 911 emergency service Monday

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 10:07 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:26
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Starting on Monday, people in the Northwest Territories, Northern Canada who find themselves in an emergency will be able to

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Northern Canada: We’ve spelled this Indigenous community’s name wrong for decades

Walter Strong, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 28, 2019 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 08:54
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The Yellowknives Dene First Nation recently emailed a notice asking certain news organizations to begin — please — to correctly spell “Dettah,”

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Historical, 150-year-old map of southwest Yukon on display in Northern Canada

Karen McColl, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 16:46 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 10:08
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When a precious map arrived in the Yukon from San Francisco last week, Tom Buzzell was shocked at its size.

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Residents in Arctic Canadian territory call for Inuktitut on federal election ballots

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 10:32
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Some Nunavummiut (residents of Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic) are disappointed that there aren’t Inuktitut ballots for voters in the

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BBC lists Sami journalist Sara Wesslin among world’s 100 most influential women

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 15:13
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Sara Wesslin is actively working to revitalize the Skolt Sámi language that was on the brink of extinction. The BBC

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Organization representing Canadian Inuit adopts unified Inuktut orthography

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 15:12
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Inuit in Canada are getting a unified orthography for the first time since Inuktut writing systems were introduced by Christian

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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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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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Inuit languages declining in Canada’s Nunavut territory, stats show

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 10:30
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Inuit languages declined in Nunavut in the 15 years between 2001 and 2016, according to a Statistics Canada report released

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Cape Dorset, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, considers returning to Inuktitut name

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 11:40
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The Nunavut community of Cape Dorset could go back to its traditional name. The community was named by English explorer

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Nunavut educator Edna Agnes Ekhivalak Elias among appointments to Order of Canada

Peter Zimonjic, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 16:03
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Gov. Gen. Julie Payette has announced the names of 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including actor Donald

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Canada’s new Indigenous languages law does not protect Inuit languages, leaders say

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:24
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Inuit leaders are calling on the Canadian government to make a real commitment to protect Inuit languages, saying the recently

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