November 2010
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Elizabeth Mukyungnik: Interview with Mr. and Mrs.... →
elizabethmm:
On the 21st of November, we did an interview with the elders James and Helen. We did the interview at their place and which was a long interview in a short period of time. The story was fun and makes it unstopable and interesting. It made me want to ask a lot of questions, but I was the writer of the interview.
At the end Helen was the last one to go and she was in a rush. I...
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Hivulivut: Inuit dog killings →
hivulipta:
CBC Oct 2010;
About 20,000 Inuit sled dogs were killed in the eastern Arctic through the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.
The killing of Inuit sled dogs on Baffin Island more than 50 years ago was likely not the result of a federal government plan to force out of their traditional way of life, according to an…
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Hivulivut: Callers from Radio Program →
hivulipta:
Henry Isluanik:
People who try their best to help everybody are honorable, we are grateful for them, they bring peace and you recognize them too.
Announcer: Were you a visitor from Arviat?
Henry: No, oh, yeah, now I remember Kugak and the in law, my dad loved to visit, that’s why we came and he…
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Congratulations Patrick and Amy for your... →
Press Release from the “Stories from Our Land” film training program
Iqaluit, Monday, November 15, 2010 – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Nunavut Film Development Corporation (NFDC) are teaming up to present a new training opportunity for the Nunavut film, television and digital media production community. Stories from Our Land is a five-day intensive, hands-on...
Hivulivut: Names of the Months →
hivulipta:
Old Eskimo Style by David Owingayak
I am going to write about how our ancestors used to count the months of the year. They kept track and counted the months in their minds as well as with their hands.
First they started the new year in September. This is the time of the year when the ground…
Hivulivut: Names of the Months →
hivulipta:
Old Eskimo Style by David Owingayak
I am going to write about how our ancestors used to count the months of the year. They kept track and counted the months in their minds as well as with their hands.
First they started the new year in September. This is the time of the year when the ground…
Hivulivut: Abbariit ~ Name Sake →
hivulipta:
The Inuit have a way of naming. Our elders have been named and been naming families, relatives since the very first Inuk.
In those days long before white man came, the Inuit only had names Inuktut. So that means they had no English names until settlements were starting to be formed probably…
Hivulivut: When danger comes →
hivulipta:
There has been a large number of bears roaming around Arviat, Nunavut this year and last year. At least 1 to 33 polar bears were / are seen around the domestic dumps which is located at the north east end of Arviat.
At times they’d be as close as baseball diamond, cemetary, other side where…
Hivulivut: Elder's Family Time →
hivulipta:
Couple years ago, my mom, niece, family, uncle and his family went to Itigugyuaq to spend a night or two together. It might have been August or September and we put up a canvas tent on top of the hill facing the ocean ahead and the community of Arviat could be seen.
We drove up by…
Hivulivut: Pointers ~ land marks →
hivulipta:
David Owingayak (my father - deceased) in helping the youth in the early 1980’s who may not know which way to head back home, or if lost on the land had decided to make pointers ~ land marks.
These pointers ~ land marks are made out of wood, painted and written in syllabics with a number…
Hivulivut: Inuit Games →
hivulipta:
Sports & Recreation:
description of games played throughout the Arctic
games can be played in school or community setting
knowing the equipment to use and how to make it
form of exercise for young and old alike
Acknowledgments:
People of Keewatin
Kivalliq Inuit Association; field of…
Hivulivut: Writing for our lives: . . . →
hivulipta:
The language of homesickness, self-esteem and the Inuit TB ‘epidemic’
Frank James Tester*, Paule McNicoll*, Peter Irniq**
54 syllabic letters written by Inuit, to Mr. Leo Manning, a translator employed in the mid-1950’s by Northern Affairs.
1/7 Inuit were in southern sanatorium, almost 50 % of…
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Hivulivut: Stories from Our Land Workshop →
hivulipta:
Today, my daughter Amy Owingayak and Patrick Pingushat started travelling to Iqaluit, Nunavut to attend a Stories from Our Land Workshop.
This workshop had invited applications to Nanisiniq and the two students named above have been accepted to join a week filming workshop.
Amy and Patrick have…
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My life: Seals →
arluq:
There’s been a lot of seals around Arviat now, a lot of people going seal hunting this fall. There were a few polar bears going around town and they were taken care by the Wildlife officer and the night watchers, to chase them away from the town because more kids are playing out late at nights.
A lot of people are now talking about the INUGAGUTNINAAQ (little people) who live...
Hivulivut: Clothing →
hivulipta:
This time of gathering together for the brief spring and summer seasons is also good time to observe and admire the … extraordinary coats …
Inner coats have the fur turned next to the body, whereas the outer coats between the traders came lay in the various colors of caribou skins. Dark chocolate…
Summer on the Coast
hivulipta:
Long before any permanent settlement, Paallirmiut summered near here.
Ocean winds kept the mosquitoes and biting flies down along the coast. The people fished, gathered eggs and berries, and hunted water fowl, ptarmigan, seals, beluga and sometimes walrus or bowhead whales.
Meat and fish drying in the summer festooned summer camps.
Margaret Aniksak Visitor Centre
Paallirmiut, Ahiarmiut, Qainnirmiut
hivulipta:
Time obscures the origins of the Caribou Inuit, but certainly by the 20th Century they had lived here for many generations.
The Paallirmiut lived in coastal and inland area near the present site of Arviat.
The Ahiarmiut lived inland near the source of the Kazan River.
And the Qainirmiut lived now of Arviat and Baker Lake and Chesterfield Inlet.
Margaret Aniksak Visitor Centre
Hivulivut: Government of Canada Apologizes →
hivulipta:
August 18, 2010; Inukjuak, Quebec
On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, the Honorable John Duncan, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians, apologized for relocating Inuit from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet to…
