Alaska Iñupiaq leaders hope Barrow’s name change to Utqiaġvik helps heal and teach
The new-old name for Barrow may take some practice to pronounce, and it’s time to start: Utqiaġvik won the nod
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Language
From women’s leadership to children’s literature, website spotlights Labrador Inuit
It’s rare you can learn about everything from Labrador’s Inuit women leaders, to children’s Inuktitut literature, in just one place.
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Words ‘Eskimo’ and ‘Aleut’ scrubbed from 2 U.S. laws, yet live on in others
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a bill that removes the words “Oriental,” “Eskimo” and “Aleut” from two federal programs.
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Website launched to help Inuit living with cancer
Video: Sophie Keenlan – One Woman’s Journey When Sophie Keelan found out she had breast cancer in 2007, she experienced the same feelings
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New tool tranlsates Inuit syllabics into Latin alphabet
A Canadian technology company has created a Google extension that will allow people to convert Inuit language syllabics into Roman
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Sámi classes breathe new life into Finland’s rarest languages
By Maura Forrest and Lily Haines | Barents Observer In Inari, Finland, the Sámi Education Institute is teaching young people to
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Finland: English language dominance worries language teachers
Traditional grammar-focused language teaching is no longer effective in adult education, as older generations shy away from it. Today’s adult
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Auditor General: Nunavut, Canada won’t meet bilingual education goals
When a made-in-Nunavut Education Act was passed by the legislative assembly in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2008,
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VIDEO: Interview with Aqqaluk Lynge
Aqqaluk Lynge is a poet and the current chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the president of the ICC–
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