Surviving in Different Worlds presents information from two workshops that brought Nunavut elders and young people together to discuss Inuit traditional knowledge. In these workshops, Inuit elders discussed ...

Peter Freuchen Ittinuar, Canada�s first Inuk Member of Parliament, was born in 1950 in Chesterfield Inlet, an Inuit community on the west coast of Hudson Bay. Ittinuar had a very traditional upbringing ...

Through the power of human memory and story—telling language, you are invited to step back in time to absorb the songs, narratives, and mythology of recently passed generations of Inuit as recorded ...

This compelling and rigorous book is concerned with the historical development of Inuktitut and its linguistic relatives. Dorais describes the Asian and Alaskan origins of the Eskaleut languages, the ...

Climate change is expected to have a particular impact on the Arctic regions of the world. Melting permafrost, changing wildlife migration patterns, and new species of flora and fauna threaten to forever ...

Each society lives on through its children. Children have to responsible adults, who can take care of themselves as well as their relatives. In this book, Inuit childrearing practices are described by ...

The way one perceives the world, and one's environment, is in large part shaped by one's culture. In many societies, dreams and visions are considered the link between the visible and the invisible universe. ...

The Interviewing Inuit Elders serties grew out of the Oral Traditions course, held at the Iqualuit campus of Nunavut Arctic College in 1996. The college invited Inuit elders to be interviewed, in Inuktitut, ...