Tuurngait was the most common word used to describe the helping spirits of an angakkuq (shaman). Tuurngait could take any form but were most commonly humans, animals, or animal bodies with a human head. ...

This book is a compilation of letters from Edmund James Peck to the first Christian converts in Nunavut. Peck was an Anglican missionary who travelled to the north to convert Inuit to Christianity. He ...

With the outbreak of World War II, Iqaluit and the Eastern Arctic were found to be strategic areas in the defense of North America. This brought a new kind of people to Inuit lands: the military. This ...