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With the fleeting summer season finally here, we're embracing the sunshine, warmth, and chance to be on the land. Our Honourary Board Chair, Bessie Pihuaq Omilgoetok, fishing at her cabin. |
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Thanks for your continued interest in our work! We're emerging from a winter and COVID hibernation, which means our staff and Elders are busier than ever running programs and activities this month. At the Library & Cultural Centre, we're getting ready to open our doors once again to cruise ship visitors from around the world.
Here's just a glimpse into our world in the last month... |
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Toolmaking with Henry Ohoilak
At the end of June, we spent a week with Elder Henry Ohoilak learning how to make fish spears, jiggers, ice chisels and ice scoops. How fitting it was that the workshop happened at Red Fish Art Studio. Our participants spanned many ages and are now equipped with the tools they'll need for a busy season of fishing.
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An Update from the Field:
The 2022 Archaeological Season
For the last few weeks, we have been out visiting sites at Iqaluktuuq with Dr. Max Friesen and his team, and surveying Kent Peninsula in search of pre-Dorset places and material.
The team is continuing to monitor and search for cultural sites facing erosion due to climate change. The harpoon head you'll see pictured below, was one such object found alarmingly easily at an exposed site. After identifying sites of concern, we hope to put measures in place to document the rate of erosion, and excavate where necessary for preservation.
|  |  |  |  |  | | ABOVE: Caribou shooting blind, where hunters would lie waiting to shoot caribou with bows (left) and a caribou drive (right). |  | ABOVE: Pihuaq (left) and Taylor (right) watch the drone as Taylor flies it over the landscape.
BELOW: (Left) Looking back at a caribou drive from the helicopter. (Right) Looking down at Iqaluktuuq, from above. |  |  |  | | ABOVE: Dorset Fishing harpoon head eroding from the Buchanon site at Iqaluktuuq. | |
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Arnaqarvik: A Place of Women
The art, the artists, and their legacy
In 1972, a grassroots craft collective called Arnaqarvik ᐊᕐᓇᖃᕐᕕᒃ (a place of women) started in Spence Bay, Northwest Territories, present day Taloyoak, ᑕᓗᕐᖪᐊᖅ Nunavut. Arnaqarvik became a space for local women to creatively hone their skills and tell their stories through fabric and artistic forms of production. Arctic natural dyes became a hallmark of their identity as a collective.
In just two years, Arnaqarvik women were selling their craftwork and fashion across North America. The craft collective lives on to this day through the business of Taluq Designs.
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Arnaqarvik, we brought together the founders and key members of the collective to compile and document the group's legacy of artwork and relationships. Now, we're excited to share our multiyear efforts, highlighting the collections, the artists, and the collective's enduring legacy through a dedicated website and collections database.
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 |  |  | | ABOVE: (Top) Part of the Arnaqarvik founding group, Alice Aleekee, Mary Eetoolook, Arnaluaq Totalik, Eva Tirtaq, Arnouyok Alookee with Denise. (Bottom Left) Patchwork side closing parka with matching tie closure and crochet tie loop holders, satin lining, antler button, red fox fur and made by Juliana Alnatilna Ameralik. (Bottom Right) Black duffle raven with red duffle amuti, woven and braided ties and black duffle baby, made by Peeteekootee. | |
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Together, we can continue to support the resurgence of our language and culture. Every day, we're working to ensure that our values and worldview are passed on to the next generation.
100% of donations support the programs and activities making this happen.
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Decades after the formation of Nunavut, the group of Inuit who came together to preserve culture, language and sovereignty reflect on their journey.
Watch Kappiataittut/Fearless on CBC Gem. |
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Re-establishing and re-imagining the lost practice of building an Inuvialuit log house, building a way to the future, and creating an opportunity for language and culture revitalization in the Beaufort Delta—The new documentary, Okpik: Little Village in the Arctic, tells this story, and will air on CBC Manitoba on August 6, 2022 and on CBC Gem in Inuvialuktun on August 5, 2022.
Big news for Inuktitut! Meta announced that Facebook users can now use the desktop version of the social media platform in Inuktitut.
Are you on TikTok? Taalrumiq is an Inuvialuk artist, designer and cultural educator based in the Northwest Territories. She's using her platform to share culture including; traditional clothes, art, fashion and design.
More than 40 people from nearly all 25 communities in Nunavut's three regions (Qikiqtaaluk, Kivalliq, and Kitikmeot) contributed to a new cookbook, Nirjutit Imaani.
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