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ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Louie Uttak NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 5:58 Inuktitut; Inuktitut and English Versions of other community comments and Formal Intervention July 23, 2012 by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Read complete Kunuk-Lipsett English Written Submission.
See What's New? below for all video and radio uploaded to My Father's Land including live online radio streaming of NIRB Public Hearings in Igloolik and Iqaluit and more call-in radio shows and video interviews with Inuit Elders and Youth talking about the impacts of mining around Baffin Island on Inuit and wildlife.
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What's New?
by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Vivi Kunuk, Part 1, 4:02, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. See also Part 2, Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett ask Vivi about mining and the past and present situation with Inuit.
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by samcc
Aboriginal Affairs minister John Duncan has decided to reject the re-appointment of the NIRB’s chairman Lucassie Arragutainaq. Arragutainaq was considered by many to be an excellent chairman. As chairman, Arragutainaq made the final decision when the eight-person board was split 50/50. He was a strong believer in Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ), and promoted an increased use of IQ in...
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by samcc
DID News Alert Full story at baffinlandwitness.com June 5, 2012. Review agencies submit final comments to NIRB before July hearings.On May 30, the territorial and federal government agencies reviewing the Mary River project filed their final written submissions to NIRB regarding Baffinland’s Mary River Project. Their outstanding issues will form the basis of discussion at the final hearings...
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by Mark Airut
Wildlife Impact Radio Call-in show, June 6, 2012, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ and English, 119:21, hosted by Lucasie Ivalu and Theo Ikkumaq, Igloolik Wildlife Officer, with guest wildlife biologist on-line discussing Inuit knowledge about wildlife impacts in Foxe Basin and Steensby Inlet and learning of other regions like Alaska where impacts of mining and development have been recorded, or changes have been made.
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by Mark Airut
June 5, 2012, Call-in Radio, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inform and Consult, 122:31, Zacharias Kunuk discussing with his community his Formal Intervention to NIRB Technical Public Hearing on Mary River Project, to be filed June 8. Zacharias explains that no other person or organization from Igloolik has filed an Intervention, and that he is Intervening to protect Inuit rights and opportunities in the future....
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Steve Sarpinak Part 1, 5:02 Inuktitut June 1, 2012. See also Part 2. Interview by Terence Uyarak of Artcirq about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Steve Sarpinak Part 2, 5:10 Inuktitut June 1, 2012. See also Part 1. Interview by Terence Uyarak of Artcirq about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Christopher Piugattuk Part 1, 3:47 Inuktitut-English May 11, 2012. See also Part 2. See also Part 3. An Interview with one of the hunters in Igloolik, Nunavut on May 11, 2012. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Christopher Piugattuk Part 3, 5:03 Inuktitut-English May 11, 2012. See also Part 1. See also Part 2. An Interview with one of the hunters in Igloolik, Nunavut on May 11, 2012. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by samcc
Emile Immaroitok talks to anthropologist Bernard Saladin d'Anglure in the 1970's, 3:32 ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in Inuktitut and in English, with French sub-titles.This video is part of Bernard Saladin d'Anglure's 16 mm film based on his work with Inuit in Igloolik during the 1960's and 1970's. For the complete film, see the version with French subtitles or with English Voice-over.Original French Version: Part...
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 1, 5:09, see also Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012, by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by derekman88
Rebecca Malliki from Igloolik speaks with Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have for Inuit and local wildlife.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 2, 4:06, see: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 3, 5:08, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 4, 3:16, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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by derekman88
Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett speak with Rebecca Malliki from Igloolik about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 5, 2:56, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.
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by derekman88
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Jason Palluq of Clyde River, Part 1, 5:25, see: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. An elder from Clyde River who was in Igloolik and we had a chance to interview him about what he thinks of the mining projects.
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About My Father’s Land
By Zacharias Kunuk
Read complete text or download PDF www.isuma.tv/lo/en/did/zacharias-kunuk-formal-intervention-to-nirb-written-submission-june-8-2012. I was born in 1957 in a sod house at Kapuivik in the middle of Ikpiq, the top of Foxe Basin, halfway between Kangirdlukjuak – Steensby Inlet – and my home community of Igloolik. My birthplace is like the ‘heart’ of the Baffinland Iron Mine impact area, the part that would change the most if and when the mine, railroad, deep-water port and supertanker shipping passing through it are approved to go ahead for the next 100 years. I traveled a long way from Kapuivik since 1957 in space and in time, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age in one generation. As an Inuk I caught caribou, seals, walrus, wolves, ptarmigan, belugas, narwhal, polar bear, snow geese, muskox and arctic char, all harvested for food, skins and oil to keep my family well-fed and warm. As a filmmaker I showed my work, my language and my culture at the Cannes Film Festival and Adelaide, Australia, in New York and Paris, in Alert Bay on Vancouver Island and Tromso in arctic Norway. I learned more about my culture and Inuit ways, and more about the outside world and how it works.
About Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID)
(Overview 5 May 2012)
Inuit consensus – "deciding together" – may be the strongest power communities can bring to negotiating with governments and transnational corporations. DID uses internet, community radio, local TV and social media to amplify Inuit traditional decision-making skills at a moment of crisis and opportunity, as Inuit face Environmental Review of the $6 billion Baffinland Iron Mine (BIM) on north Baffin Island. Through DID, Inuit adapt "deciding together" to get needed information in language they understand, talk about their concerns publicly and reach collective decisions with the power of consensus. Inuit consensus will be expressed publicly in a multimedia Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), looking at the positive and negative impacts of the proposed mine in terms of international human rights standards and best practices, and then presented to the regulatory process, online through IsumaTV and through local radio and TV channels in all Nunavut communities. For more information see DID Overview. DID News Alert. Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home.
