Herd of caribous near Baker Lake

On Baffin Island, two mountains of ore will be cut down at Mary River. Some residents of Igloolik react to this development : they worry that this industrial development will destroy their environment and the marine mammals as well as their culture and hunting life style.

ARNAIT: Show Me on the Map Episode 2, People Can Stand Up (22 mins) Discussions on Aboriginal Lands, Arnait Video Productions 2010, Carol Kunnuk, Marie-Hélène Cousineau. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on the Map, 2009. 

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ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atuat Akkirtiq shares her views on mining in this interview recorded for the program Show Me on the Map.   

"If the people consult us, they should be true to their word."

Madeline Ivalu speaks about mining in an interview filmed for the program Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ 

Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ  "...we have to fight so hard for our rights when often things are already decided for us." Arnait Video, Show Me on the Map, 2009.

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Anti-uranium campaign by Makita: Dr Helen Caldicott part 2

Dr Helen Cadicott and Gordon Edwards answer some questions from the audience in Iqaluit. In english and in Inuktitut.

Period of questions and remarks by the audience at the anti-uranium evening organized by Makita in Iqaluit Nov.18th.

Gordon Edwards, from the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsability, tells us that uranium mining is done on aboriginal lands where mining companies find vulnerable people; Dr Helen Caldicott agrees and talks about Australia. Joe Tigullaraq, running for NTI president, questions the NTI policy on uranium mining.