Inuit Culture Education

TEACHING BY FILMS

What you can teach with these films

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner The Fast Runner Trilogy | AGES 14+

  • Inuit legends
  • Shamanism
  • Community-based filmmaking
  • Nomadic communities
  • First film written, directed and acted by Inuit
  • Inuktitut language
  • Inuit ancestors

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen The Fast Runner Trilogy | AGES 14+

  • Inuit storytelling
  • Early 20th century
  • Modern anthropology
  • Old vs new culture
  • Christianity
  • Shamanism
  • Arctic Expeditions
  • Digital storytelling

Before Tomorrow The Fast Runner Trilogy | AGES 14+

  • Inuit women storytelling
  • Family relationships
  • Impact of disease
  • First encounter with white people

Qimuksik Dog Team | ALL AGES

  • Life in the Arctic
  • Inuit survival skills (the old way): navigation, ice thickness, driving the dogs, building the igloo, catching seals on the open water, running down caribou to feed the family.
  • Family: dad role model
  • Hunting skills
  • Inuit relationship with dogs

Nanugiurutiga My First Polar Bear | ALL AGES

  • Polar Bears
  • Elders storytelling
  • Working in community
  • Inuit Family
  • Hunting skills
  • Inuit relationship with dogs

Artcirq | ALL AGES

  • Inuit traditions and circus training
  • Working in community
  • Youth in the Arctic
  • Suicide and despair prevention
  • Good examples for community
  • Circus performance
  • Inuit storytelling with theater and songs

Unakuluk Dear Little One | ALL AGES

  • Inuit culture
  • Inuit family relations
  • Women stories
  • Adoption as a tradition
  • Storytelling through embroider, draw and cut of fabric

Aiviaq Walrus Hunt | ALL AGES

  • Inuit historic use of boats
  • Old way of camping
  • Children handling
  • Social structure
  • Safety measures
  • Hunting practices
 

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