Canadian exhibition showcases cutting-edge Indigenous art from around the globe, including Arctic
A major art exhibit is underway in Canada featuring contemporary works by some 70 Indigenous artists, several of them from
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Arctic Canada: Nunavut parent and teacher groups decry changes to education, language acts
The organization representing parents of Nunavut students, in Arctic Canada, is denouncing a controversial proposed law that would change the
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Beluga whales could carry a molecule preventing mercury poisoning
Could the belugas of Northern Quebec hold the key to preventing mercury intoxication in local Inuit communities? This is what
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Canada’s Inuit look forward to working with newly appointed ministers
Canada’s national Inuit organization, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), and the Canadian section of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) have indicated
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An open door to reconciliation: inside Ottawa’s new Indigenous Peoples building
Inside the ornate former U.S. embassy across from the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, a set of plain tools sits in
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New clinic at children’s hospital in Ottawa to address specific needs of Inuit patients
Young patients from Nunavut coming to CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) to be treated for complicated health issues will
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Arctic Canada: Proposed bill won’t uphold Inuit language rights in Nunavut, education board says
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
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
Thursday was International Inuit Day, a celebration set up to acknowledge and celebrate Inuit culture and contributions. To mark this
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Atlantic Canada: Inuit helping Innu community deal with suicide crisis
As support workers continue around-the-clock support to help people in Sheshatshiu deal with the community’s suicide crisis, the effort has
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Inuit artists reflect on their art, their culture and their language
Discover renowned Inuit artists from Arctic Canada and their works through these past interviews by Eye on the Arctic journalist
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How one man has made a place for struggling ivory carvers in Anchorage, Alaska
In a cluttered downtown Anchorage, Alaska workshop, Leon Misak Kinneeveauk pondered what to do with small walrus skull on an
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Northern Canada: New health centre in Cape Dorset could hold those on suicide watch, inquest hears
Cape Dorset’s new health centre will be the first in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut to have a room
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Photos show Torngat Mountains in Canada’s eastern Arctic as you’ve never seen them before
He’s shot former U.S. presidents, Hollywood stars and candid portraits from Haiti to Hawaii. But now acclaimed photographer David Howells
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Labrador MP slams Innu leadership in legal spat over NunatuKavut Inuit self-determination
Moments after her election win sent Yvonne Jones back to Ottawa for a third term, the Labrador MP broke her
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