What’s this about?
Beginning in 2010 in Arviat Nunavut, the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project is a multi-media history project which brings together Inuit youth and Elders to re-discover Inuit history.
Follow Nanisiniq on our ‘journey of discovery’ as we uncover treasures from the past - travelling thousands of kilometres around the world, visiting four continents, co-documenting over 100 hours of video footage, examining countless archival documents, talking to over 50 Elders and re-thinking the importance of history. It’s your history- join us!
We are humbled by the many organizations and individuals who have contributed to the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project. The Sivulinuut Elders Society, the University of British Columbia School of Social Work, the Nunavut Research Institute and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada are the project’s central supporters.
Jordan Konek: Human Power - Inuit
I am wondering why my grandpa knows so much because the world scientists need 10 years of schooling and some papers to write to be acknowledged as someone that can tell you what’s going on. Yeah I understand my grandpa spent a lot of his time in the land to learn to survive the power of mother…
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Jordan Konek: An Igloo filled with Scientific Experiments
It feels as if I’m in a science lab or I’m in class learning these things from my grandfather. Where you get those light bulb moments, and start to really think about it. When my grandfather talks to me one on one, I start to think how much information is being lost and it’s not being recorded….
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International Polar Year conference, Montreal April 23-27, 2012 - Zacharias Kunuk with young filmmakers and Elder Martha Okotak from the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project. Photo- Ian Mauro
April 25, 2012- Elder Martha Okotak shares her thoughts on the International Polar Year conference, Montreal and involvement with the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project
