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Board President Annie Atighioyak and Elder-in-Residence Mary Kaotalok during Archaeology Day in July—a day for the community to visit the site and learn about the season's work and findings.
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Family Fishing Day Camp
In the last two weeks, we ran two cohorts for a Family Fishing Day Camp. Participants learned how to set and check nets, and how to catch, cut, and prepare Arctic char in a variety of ways—from cooking up a hot char chowder to drying fish under the sun.
This camp is part of a multiyear fishing and fish skills program that is being supported by the Government of Canada, through the Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program.
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A photo wrap-up of the 2022 archaeological fieldseason |
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| ABOVE LEFT: Joyce Zukiwsky and Taylor Thornton investigate a small stone tent ring on the barren beach ridges of Kent Peninsula, south of Cambridge Bay on the Mainland. These tent rings were made by the earliest people in Nunavut, and are probably 4,500 years old. ABOVE RIGHT: Austin Robinson shows Shelby Patrick and Taylor Thornton an artifact he found at an early site on Freshwater Creek. At the right of the picture, erosion can be seen. This site, along with several others, are threatened with rapid erosion due to climate warming. |
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| ABOVE: Peter Evetalegak stands next to a stone kayak cache at Iqaluktuuq, northwest of Cambridge Bay. BELOW: The PI/KHS recording oral histories at Iqaluktuuq, northwest of Cambridge Bay. |
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| ABOVE LEFT: Peter Evetalegak and Joyce Zukiwsky record the GPS location of an early Inuinnait stone winter house on Freshwater Creek. ABOVE RIGHT: Austin Robinson shows a Tuniit (Middle Dorset period) harpoon head found at an eroding site on Freshwater Creek. |
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| ABOVE: Elders and archaeologists excavate at a 2,000-year-old Tuniit site north of Cambridge Bay. BELOW: A spectacular and mysterious Tuniit carving of a face, found at an ancient fishing site north of Cambridge Bay. Elders interpreted this carving as an amulet, so the site is named "Atataqarvik", meaning “a place where there is an amulet”. |
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| ABOVE: Field assistants Austin, Joyce, and Peter recap the 2022 field season. |
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| ABOVE: In 1965, while living in Gjoa Haven, Mary Kaotalok made and sold this beautiful tapestry to a southerner living in the North at the time. We recently received a letter, and the wall hanging, from a teacher who worked in Cambridge Bay in the 1960s. She had received it as a gift from a friend in Gjoa Haven. After enjoying it for decades, she had decided that the wall hanging should be returned to its home community. Almost 60 years later, Mary is now working as an Elder-in-Residence with us and very happy to be reunited with her piece, and to share it with the community. |
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Six new Inuinnaujugut episodes
are now streaming |
 | Inuinnaujugut / We Are Inuinnait is a podcast by Inuinnait, about Inuinnait life, experiences, and traditions, with conversations in Inuinnaqtun.
Six new episodes were uploaded this month on various topics, and are now available to stream or download. Episodes are available for free on Buzzsprout, or by logging into a Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts account.
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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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Linguists have created an Iñupiaq digital dictionary, the first of its kind for the North Slope dialect of Iñupiaq, featuring a dictionary, a word-building function and an audio library to hear the way words are pronounced.
A new exhibit at the Iqaluit airport is celebrating Nunavut seamstresses, with amautis, parkas, and sewing tools on display from across the territory.
This Inuit-language counsellor training program is aiming to improve mental health support across Nunavut.
Cambridge Bay wrestler wins gold for Team Nunavut at Canada Summer Games. |
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