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Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.

How to hunt walrus, from how to kill and butcher it, to preparing the meat and burying it to make Igunaq, the fermented walrus meat.

https://pmcrenewal.com/ - Youth participants from PMC's Pre-Employment Training Program in Arviat, Nunavut created this video documentary to inspire Inuit youth.

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Makuktut, Sivunirivaptigit - Young People, We Are the Future

Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.

Tungijuq (What We Eat), Isuma, Kunuk Cohn Productions 2009, Producer Stephane Rituit, Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael, Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut.

Inuit jazz throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to Brigitte Bardot and anti-sealhunting lobby on the eternal reality of hunting.

 Congratulations to this year’s Ice Watch Grand Prize Winners!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2025 Ice Watch and keep an eye on SIKU and our social media channels as we continue to share highlights from this year’s ice season!

Learn more at https://siku.org/icewatch

Congratulations to Rick Oyukuluk Sr. from Arctic Bay! Rick is this week’s Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post on May 30 documenting aajuraq - an area of open water formed by ice opening up due to wind or currents, often in spring.

Congratulations to Daniel Jaaka from Ivujivik - the Week #11 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post tagging ivujuq - the process of ice piling up and forming ridges along the floe edge.

Johnny Arnaituk’s Ice Post near Kangiqsujuaq has been chosen as a featured video! It is an excellent example of community knowledge-sharing using SIKU!
Get involved in the 2025 Ice Watch - you could win a new snowmobile, Northern gift cards and more!

Learn more - https://siku.org/icewatch

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English narration with Inuktut subtitles
 

 Congratulations to Bernard Andersen from Makkovik - the Week #10 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post tagging aukkanik - open areas in spring.

Congratulations to Brian Kasudluak from Inukjuak - the Week #9 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post tagging aukkaniq - open areas in spring.

Congratulations to Johnny Ippak from Sanikiluaq - the Week #8 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post!

 Watch as we showcase a selection of Ice Watch posts that demonstrate community knowledge-sharing using SIKU!

Get involved in the 2025 Ice Watch Challenge and support ice safety and knowledge-sharing in your community - you could win Northern gift cards, a new snowmobile and more! Learn more - /siku.org/icewatch
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English narration with Inuktut subtitles

 Congratulations to Samantha Pilgrim from Postville - the Week #7 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post!

 Congratulations to James Keevik from Tuktoyaktuk - the Week #6 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting open water near their community.

Congratulations to David Iqqaqsaq from Qikiqtarjuaq - the Week #5 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting rough ice near their community.

Get involved in the 2025 Ice Watch! Support ice safety and share knowledge in your community by sharing Ice Posts with SIKU - you could win a brand new snowmobile, Northern gift cards and more! For details visit: siku.org/icewatch

Congratulations to Samuel Mcleod from Aklavik - the Week #4 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting young ice near their community.

Get involved in the 2025 Ice Watch! Support ice safety and share knowledge in your community by sharing Ice Posts with SIKU - you could win a brand new snowmobile, Northern gift cards and more! For details visit: https://siku.org/icewatch

Congratulations to Elena Angnatuk from Quaqtaq - the Week #3 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting how to use an unaaq (harpoon) near their community.

 Congratulations to Willia Amaamatuak from Salluit - the Week #2 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting sinaaq near their community.

 � Congratulations to Judah Sarpinak from Iglulik - the Week 17 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post near their community.

Get involved in the 2024 Ice Watch! Support ice safety and share knowledge in your community by sharing Ice Posts with SIKU - you could win a Ski-Doo from Contant, Northern gift cards and more! For details visit: https://siku.org/icewatch

Congratulations to Cheryl Tilley from Arctic Bay - the Week 16 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post.

Get involved in the 2024 Ice Watch Challenge! Support ice safety and share knowledge in your community by sharing Ice Posts with SIKU - you could win an Expedition Sport 900 Ace Ski-Doo from Contant, Northern gift cards and more! For details visit: siku.org/icewatch

On this episode of Welcome To Our Qammaq:

Host Marcy Siakuluk presents two short hunting segments edited by Carol Kunnuk.

Narwhal hunt, September 15th, 2024.
Camera: Zacharias Kunuk
With: Igloolikmiut

Seal hunt
Camera: Nataq Ungalaq
With: Zacharias Kunuk, Charlie Uttak, Jerry Iyyerak, Hunter Ungalaq, Charlotte Kunuk, Nataq Ungalaq

Host Carol Kunnuk welcomes Peter Awa to the show to talk about being aware of the ice conditions and the weather when going out hunting. Carol also presents a short video of a polar bear being butchered, as well as a musical performance. LIVE from Igloolik, December 8th, 2023.

 ᑐᙵᓱᒋᑦ ᖃᕐᒪᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ - Welcome To Our Qammaq LIVE

Welcome To Our Qammaq is back, hosted by Carol Kunnuk, with Susan Avingaq and Leonie Qrunnut. Topics will be inooya’s (traditional dolls), some storytelling, with a few video clips playing in between. LIVE from Igloolik, November 3rd, 2023

 WARNING: This video may be offensive to some viewers viewer discretion is advised. 

How to prepare a snared rabbit from the trapline for Rabbit stew instructions in the Ojibway Language (Manitoba interlake dilect).

 Language: Inuktitut

Synopsis: Youth from Kangirsujuaq, Quebec learn traditional land survival skills from local instructors such as trapping, creating/finding shelter in a storm.

Copyright: © T.N.I. 2011

 Language: Inuktitut

Synopsis: In the fall of 2012, a large herd of caribou were spotted near Umiujaq, Quebec. After a few days at the end of a successful hunt, local hunters triumphantly returned to the village with a plane load of caribou meat for the village.

Copyright: © T.N.I. 2012

Piniartuuneq

 In Caribou Storyteller Elders tell stories of people who lived on the land; showing us what the story is today, what it looks like now and who goes there now…with many questions around: are people still hunting caribou?

Is it still a caribou route? Is it still accessable to this day?

In Caribou Storyteller Elders tell stories of people who lived on the land; showing us what the story is today, what it looks like now and who goes there now…with many questions around: are people still hunting caribou?

Is it still a caribou route? Are there development companies working there now?

ᐊᔾᔨᓕᐅᕐᑕᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᓴᖃᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᑦ ᖃᐃᖁᓯᒪᔭᖏᓪᓗ ᓯᓈᖓᓂ ᓇᑦᑎᕋᓱᒃᑐᑦ. ᓴᖃᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ ᐅᖃᓪᓚᖃᑎᖃᕐᑐᖅ ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᕕᖓᕐᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᒪᑎᓕᓐ ᐃᕙᓗ ᐱᓚᖕᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᕿᓯᒃᓂᒃ.

The cameras follow Zacharias Kunuk and his guests to the floe edge where they seal hunt. Zacharias talks to Susan Avingaq and Madeline Ivalu about seal skinning.

 An Idle No More protest in Montreal.

Thanks to Pierre Chauvin for sharing the video.

 Idle No More protests in Oakland on Jan. 5, 2013.

Thanks to Michelle Steinberg for sharing this video!

Overview of Tipi Raising (Video 1)

Birch Bark Biting with Rosella Carney (Video 1)

Elder Davidee Niviaxie and his daughter Eva of Umiujaq. Davidee will be talking about some of the earlier times in his life as well as language and its importance.

 Saimatsianiq: Documenting, mobilizing, and promoting Inuit legal practices to preserve social harmony in Nunavik
Project directed by Caroline Hervé, Research Chair on Relations with Inuit Societies (Université Laval)

Qajaq construction at Nuvviti School in Ivujivik, February 2020.

Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.

Tungijuq (What We Eat), Isuma, Kunuk Cohn Productions 2009, Producer Stephane Rituit, Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael, Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut.

Inuit jazz throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to Brigitte Bardot and anti-sealhunting lobby on the eternal reality of hunting.

Why children should not wander too far from camp.

Produced by JerryCo Animation and Kingulliit Productions. 2016.

Arviat Television's Ethan Tassiuk caught up with Innosar Issakiark for a musical break during the 2016 Arviat Youth Leadership Camp this July.

The camp, held July 1-8 saw more than a dozen highly-engaged young leaders developing their community development skills with support from the Hamlet of Arviat, TakingITGlobal and the Samuel Family Foundation. 

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2001
DURATION: 52 min.
GENRE: documentary
FORMAT: video, colour
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut, Fr-Eng st
DIRECTORS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Hélène Cousineau
PRODUCERS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Helene Cousineau… Read more

Arnait Video Presents: Aqtuqsi (The Nightmare), Arnait Video Productions 1996, Director Mary Kunuk. Inuktut no subtitles.

Rose Ukkumaluk, an Igloolik elder, relates the tale of Attagutaaluk, a woman who survived a starvation and lived to become an honoured resident of Igloolik.

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.

In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs considered most important to preserve for the future: where did the songs come from, how where they made and how have they been passed down generation to generation?

In the 1980’s and 90’s, as aging elders and Third Generation children become modern adults, southern radio and television introduced in 1982 increase the impact of foreign language and culture, and quickly alter the community dynamics of the settlement.… Read more

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2000
DURATION: 29 min
GENRE: Docu-drama
FORMAT: Video (colour)
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut, Eng/Fr s-t
DIRECTORS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Helene Cousineau
PRODUCER: Arnait Video Productions… Read more

Footage from Artcirq's performance of ASIU (Lost) at the 2014 edition of the Alianait Arts Festival in Iqaluit.

Asiu is Artcirq's latest show and is inspired by the traditional Inuit legend Amaqup Nunaat (The Land of Wolves) about two brothers who find themselves lost in the mysterious world of the Shadow People.

 Excerpts from the Smoke ceremony at Deebing Creek Sovereignty Camp, west of Brisbane, QLD.

 Sacred Spirit of Australia

Moderator Mary Jordan from the Washington Post joins speakers Portia Myaba-Seatlholo, Simangele “Smash” Shoyisa and Lindiwe Sibiya to discuss their work with the organization City Year South Africa.

This conversation was held as part of the first global symposium on Overcoming Isolation and Deepening Social Connectedness held from Oct 1 - 3, 2014 in Toronto.

Mary Jordan from The Washington Post joins Patience Mokgadi, Sandra Thandi Twala and Elizabeth Maki Khumalo from the Othandweni Children’s Home.

They work with Johannesburg Child Welfare, an organization in South Africa that works with marginalized children and members of society.

This informative panel presentation share stories of practical experience from those engaged in community engagement activities that support community resilience.

Canadian singer-songwriter and internationally recognized humanitarian Bruce Cockburn, is lending his voice to suicide prevention by partnering with the Collateral Damage Project. The Order of Canada recipient is releasing a video calling for a dialogue on suicide. To view the video, go to www.leftbehindbysuicide.org

 In 2012, the National Aborignal Council of Midwives was invited into five communities across Canada to speak about birth, past and present, the return of birth and what that would mean to Aboringal cultures, health, and nationhood.

 An Idle No More protest in Montreal.

Thanks to Pierre Chauvin for sharing the video.

Interview:

What Mexihcah New Year is

Youth and Culture

Youth and Education

For the coming generations thoughts

Birch Bark Biting with Rosella Carney (Video 1)

Introduction (Video 1)