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August 7, 2018 -

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07 August 2018

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12h 32m 31s
  • 00:00 Hunting With My Ancestors | Episode 1: Bowhead Whale Hunt

    Duration: 49m 51s

    Inuit have hunted bowhead whales for thousands of years, using stone tools to hunt these 25 ton mammals. In 2016, Igloolik received a tag to harvest a bowhead; Zacharias Kunuk documents this hunt - from the selection of hunting captains and planning

    Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 1: Bowhead Whale Hunt, Isuma, Kingulliit Productions 2017, Director Zacharias Kunuk.

  • Duration: 30m

    Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 2: Net Fishing Under the Ice, Isuma/Kingulliit Productions 2018, Director Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut w/Eng s-t.

  • Duration: 29m 58s

    Hunting With My Ancestors, Episode 3, Dog Team Bear Hunt.

  • 01:49 Hunting With My Ancestors | Episode 5: Walrus Hunt

    Duration: 32m 40s

    Inuit of the Igloolik region have been hunting walrus, incredibly large and sometimes dangerous animals, for thousands of years – caching and fermenting their meat for the long winter ahead. We first follow Zach on a winter hunt, as hunters venture out by snowmobile to the floe edge in search of walrus, and a more common summer hunt by boat.  

  • 02:22 Hunting With My Ancestors | Episode 6: Seal Pup Hunt

    Duration: 55m 29s

    It’s June and time for the spring seal hunt. People travel on the melting sea ice looking for cracks and breathing holes in the 24-hour daylight. Zach follows elder Louis Uttak on a family seal hunt, as he shares his expert hunting knowledge and tells stories of his past life living on the land.  

  • 03:18 Hunting With My Ancestors | Episode 7: Caribou Hunt With Peter Suwaksiork

    Duration: 32m 27s

    In October of 2015 Zach travelled to Arviat, one of the southernmost communities in Nunavut, along the western coast of Hudson Bay. The area is known for its incredibly large herds of caribou.

  • Duration: 4m 9s

  • 03:54 Ningiuq

    Duration: 11m 25s

    In 2009, Rachel Uyarasuk, elder of the Inuit community of Igloolik (Nunavut), evokes the ancestors whose name she received at birth. She explains how this transmission ensured their return among the world of the living.

    A film by Christin Merlhiot

    France, 2014, 11 minutes, animation

    Inuktitut with English & French subtitles

  • Duration: 59m 30s

    Nunatinni (At Our Place) 44a Part 1, March 16, 2004.

    NITV 2004, Host Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut. Broadcast Live March 16, 2004. Local news and culture from Igloolik. Stories about ice fishing and seal hunting.


     

  • Duration: 56m 43s

    NITV Nunatinni (At Our Place) Show #43a, Part 2, 2004, NITV 2004, Host Carol Kunnuk, Interviewer Lucy Tulugarjuk.
  • 06:02 Nunatinni Classics | Nunatinni (At Our Place) - Episode #45a

    Duration: 53m 34s

    ᓇᑲᑎᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᑕᕐᕆᔭᒐᒃᓴᐃᑦ ᑕᒫᙵᑦ ᓄᓇᑦᑎᓐᓂ − ᑕᐃᒪᐃᑲᐅᑎᒋᓪᓗᑎ ᐱᖅᑯᓯᐅᔪᑦ, ᓴᓇᕈᓘᔭᕐᓂᖅ, ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ, ᑕᐃᔅᓱᒪᓂᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᑦ, ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᕆᔭᕐᒥᒃ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᖃᕐᓂᖅ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓄᓇᒋᔭᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᖁᕕᐊᓲᑎᖃᕐᓃᑦ ᑲᑎᖅᓱᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᑕᒃᑯᓴᐅᖃᑦᑕᖅᐳᑦ ᖃᐅᑕᒫᖅ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᖕᒥᑦ ᑕᐃᑲᖓᑦ 1997−ᒥᑦ 2005−ᒧᑦ.

  • Duration: 1h 2m 36s

    Nunatinni (At Our Place) Show #42a, Part 1, March 12, 2004, NITV 2004, Host Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut. Broadcast Live in Igloolik March 12, 2004 with local news and culture, interviews, children's artwork, Zacharias Kunuk.
  • 07:58 Anaana

    Duration: 53m 45s

    A documentary from Arnait Video Productions (Women's Video Collective of Igloolik). Abandoned by her father, a White RCMP officer, Vivi Kunuk was adopted by the Inuk family of her mother who raised her as a boy. This is but one remarkable chapter in her life.

  • 08:52 Perspectives | Arnait Video Presents: Umiaq

    Duration: 26m 43s

    A documentary about a group of elders in Igloolik, who decide to build an umiaq, a boat covered with seal skins

    Arnait Video Presents: Umiaq, Arnait Video Productions 2007, filmmakers Madeline Ivalu, Carol Kunnuk.

    In Inuktitut with Eng s-t. 

    info@arnaitvideo.ca.

  • Duration: 17m 41s

    Arnait Video Presents: Charlie Pisuk, Arnait Video Productions. English.

    Charlie Pisuk is your uncle, your cousin, your brother-in-law. What do you have to say about him? Someone is listening.

  • 09:36 Movie Night | Piujuk and Angutautuq

    Duration: 27m 10s

    Piujuk and Angutautuq, Arnait Video Productions 1994, Producers Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq, Mary Kunuk and Marie-helene Cousineau. Inuktut w/English s-t. 

  • 10:03 Documentaries | Nipi (Voice)

    Duration: 50m 45s

    Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands.

  • 10:54 Documentaries | Exile Nutaunikut

    Duration: 48m 16s

    In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec, to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. Inuit endured families torn apart and many years of hardship.

  • 11:42 Documentaries | Angakkuiit (Shaman Stories)

    Duration: 48m 3s

    Inuit memories and experiences of shamanism, and oral histories about the last shamans practicing in the region of Igloolik, Nunavut. Interviewees range from young people to elders and politicians, but they all share a belief that things happen, and that shamanism is still a living religion.

  • 12:30 Hunting With My Ancestors | Hunters Share with the Community

    Duration: 1m 38s

    Camera: Richard Amarualik
    Editing: Maia Iotzova

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