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Erasmus: I agree with Johnny Kublu IIBA has to be amended, and there should be training facilities provided for higher positions such as conductors mechanics and engineers.

There is going to be a driving school in Pond Inlet because the mine is using big trucks, and they want to use railways so they have to train Inuit how to operate the equipment

Merlin the Econnomic Devolopment Officer asking about training, and joint ventures and what are the plans for the future environment.

Shelly: Baffinland should do more for inuit in training for the various jobs that the mine provides not just employ those that are able, this is creating a situation were the inuit are being forced to run before they can walk job wise and that results in having to look for workers outside of the territory of Nunavut, and this means there is money is going out of Nunavut intsead of benefiting th… Read more

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

The making of an interdisciplinary art performance over the summer of 2005 in collaboration with Lucy T, Laurentino A, Guillaume S, Genevieve P 

Performing first show Oaraya, at the Igloolik old community hall - with Jessica Arpin

Full Artcirq show in Essakane, in Mali 

Hanging around Bamako doing some training and having fun, getting ready for Festival au desert in Timbuktu 

Hanging out in Bamako training for the Festival au desert. 

Hanging out in Bamako training for the Festival au desert in Timbuktu, Mali. 

Tumbling and balancing, practicing the men's act at the old Igloolik community hall. 

Artcirq practices making a human bridge! Don't try this at home...

Training sessions for the BRYC show! This was Artcirq's first paid show.

Another behind the scenes training session! 

Artcirq hanging out at the Arviat pool 

Nighttime training session at the old Igloolik swimming pool!

 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)

Exploration of the fascinating life of the controversial arctic athropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, this documentary includes the fresh perspective of Stefansson's six forgotten Inuit grandchildren.

Produced by White Pine pictures in assoc. with History Television and APTN. 

Director Peter Raymont

Producers Peter Raymond and Lindalee Tracey

In a family feud nearly two centuries old, two Appalachian families keep alive their tradition of egg fighting.  The annual Peters Hollow Easter Egg Fight in Stoney Creek, Tennessee, was a way to settle a dispute over which family's chickens laid  harder eggs.  The Watermill Theatre in Berkshire, England, resides in a structure with a three hundred year history.  The wooden … Read more

One of the greatest places to see rock art is Nevada, which has lots of rock faces, a dry climate that preserves it, and limited vegetation to cover it up.  The Nevada Rock Art Foundation is busy recording what’s there and finding ways to preserve it.… Read more

A Maya pyramid at El Zotz, Guatemala, with images done in dramatic painted stucco and a royal tomb full of artifacts and human remains, may have linked the deceased lord to the eternal sun; technicians using ancient building techniques work to save crumbling walls at  “The Mithraeum of the Painted Walls” in Ostia Antica, the harbor of classical Rome; workers restore Paschoal Ha… Read more

 Excavations in 2005 prior to the upgrade of “The Avenue of the Saints,” U.S. Route 61 in 15 miles of the Mississippi River valley in Missouri, revealed over 1000 buried features, 60,000 artifacts, and copious environmental data from over two dozen sites spanning 10,000 years; In a video interview at TAC Festival 2011, Dr.… Read more

 Famed UK archaeologist and lecturer Dr. Brooklyn Hornswoggle-Smyth expounds on contemporary archaeology (exploring the very recent past) in a short film parody created by two irreverent UK students from the University of Bristol; Rick Pettigrew interviews Dr.… Read more

Dr. Mark Van Stone, a leading expert on the Mayan calendar and the significance of 2012, describes the front of Quiriguá Stela K, a Guatemalan stone monument carved in AD 805, just before the Maya Collapse. The USDA Forest Service investigates the extent and significance of the prehistoric Silver Glen Springs Site in Florida.… Read more

Mitiarjuk: femme inuit du Québec arctique.

Film 16mm couleur avec son synchrone, 1977, tourné à Kangirsujuaq-Wakeham dans le Québec arctique, pour l'émission "femmes d'aujourd'hui" de Radio-Canada.

Mitiarjuk est une femme-écrivain et notre principale informatrice dans ce village.

In this Volume Three of the Contemporary Shamanic Journeys series, the author takes the readers on the roads of North, Central and South America, exploring pre-Columbian civilizations, Indigenous traditional teachings and other ancient cultures, with the ancestral legacy their histories left us with.

In this Volume Three of the Contemporary Shamanic Journeys series, the author takes the readers on the roads of North, Central and South America, exploring pre-Columbian civilizations, Indigenous traditional teachings and other ancient cultures, with the ancestral legacy their histories left us with.

Beginning in 2010 in Arviat Nunavut, the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project is a multi-media history project which brings together Inuit youth and Elders to re-discover Inuit history.

 The Nattilik Heritage Center in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut was opened to the public on October 17, 2013. Uqhuqtuurmiut celebrated the opening together with visiting guests from out of town. The center houses historical artifacts and showcases art from the community. 

Runs - 21mins 51secs

Camera and Edit - John Main

 On Herschel Island, a young Inuvialuk boy, Nuligak, came of age. Fascinated by Herschel, but equally repelled by the excess or so-called civilization. Through Nuligak's touching yet tragic life story, we are offered a unique view into a troubling past and a hopeful future.

Runs 69 mins 33 seconds

Produced by Inuvialuit Communications Society, History Television, APTN

 In this video, Grand Treaty 3 Elder Katherine Fobister discusses the birth history in her community.

Haida elder and historian Captain Gold of the Skidegate Haida makes a presentation on the history of the Haida people, combining dated material and Haida oral history. 

Herschel Island is a small, unassuming parcel of land just off the Yukon coast. It lies silently on the margins of geography, entrapped in the footnotes of history, a forgotten place frozen in time. And yet, just over a century ago, Herschel was a frontier boom-town, labelled “The Sodom of the Arctic”.… Read more

Exploration of the fascinating life of the controversial arctic athropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, this documentary includes the fresh perspective of Stefansson's six forgotten Inuit grandchildren.

Produced by White Pine pictures in assoc. with History Television and APTN. 

Director Peter Raymont

Producers Peter Raymond and Lindalee Tracey

Archival film from Cambridge Bay Dewline Site.

Shot and edited by unknown persons.

Shows Cambridge Bay Distant Early Warning site and the community in the 50's and 60's. Dates unknown.

Runtime: 32:36

At the old community hall in Igloolik 

Artcirq rehearsing and prepping in Iqaluit for the first year at Alianit!

Chatting with some members of Artcirq, before a show, and during the performance 

More performance video! 

Pre-show rehearsal and rigging, you get to see how circus works... 

Working on learning some tumbling and contortion! 

Music, dinner, and circus...Artcirq does all kinds of fun stuff! 

Artcirq and Cirque Eloize working together... 

Artcirq performance footage! 

More conversations and behind the scenes footage of rehearsals in Igloolik! 

Some conversations with members of Artcirq, and behind the scenes footage of practicing techniques. 

Do you like Cirque Eloize? Do you like Artcirq? Here they are collaborating together, in Montreal! 

Artcirq practicing new techniques, in Montreal, with help from Cirque Eloize! 

Artcirq in Montreal, doing some circus tricks, practicing, rehearsing, and having fun. 

Some behind the scenes acrobatics and contortion and tumbling, costarring Karine Delzors. 

Artcirq showing off skills in Igloolik. 

Artcirq's cofounders visit France 

The big white ball visits the dunes outside Timbuktu for the Festival au desert in Mali. 

Behind the scenes of Artcirq's 2007 trip to Monterrey, Mexico.

 Behind the scenes of Artcirq's 2007 trip to Monterrey, Mexico...collaborations with other circus performers!

Behind the scenes of Artcirq's 2007 trip to Monterrey, Mexico.

Artcirq's trip to Monterrey, Mexico wouldn't have been complete without some tourism! Part 2 

 Performances and tourism in Monterrey, Mexico!

Four members of Artcirq fly down to Monterrey, Mexcio, in the first trip out of Canada for them. They participate in a historical meeting with three circus companies: Les 7 Doigts de la Main (Montreal), Cirko Dementes (Mexico) et Artcirq (Igloolik). Thanks to Qaggiq Theatre of Iqaluit for its financial contribution and its moral support.

More performance video! 

Musicians jamming out and footage of a trip! 

Music, dinner, and circus...Artcirq does all kinds of fun stuff! 

Another performance, in Montreal! 

More clips of Artcirq in Montreal! 

Quebec Artcirq tour, Cirque Eloize, Laval University, and a night in a teepee.

Rain, boats, and traveling: Artcirq does Quebec City! 

ᓴᖃᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ ᑐᖓᓴᐃᔪᖅ ᑕᐅᑐᖁᔨᓪᓗᓂ ᓱᓴᓐ ᐊᕕᖓ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᑎᑦᑎᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᔭᕌᕐᓂᕐᒥᒃ. ᐱᖃᑖᓂ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᓂ ᓴᕿᔮᕐᑎᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂᑦ, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒃ, ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᒃ, ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑲᖏᕐᑐᒑᐱᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᕐᑐᑦ ᓄᓇᒥᒃ ᖃᓂᒋᔭᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᖅ ᓴᕕᒃᓴᖅ ᐅᓯᑲᕐᑕᕐᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ ᐹᕕᓐᓛᓐᑦ ᓄᓘᔮᓂ ᐅᔭᕋᒃᑕᕐᑐ ᐃᒃᐱᖕᓇᐅᑎᖃᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ.

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.

Students in Arviat learn to conduct a fish necropsy with Vincent L'Herault. Filmed and produced by the Arviat Wellness Media Team.

Louie Uttak NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 5:58 English version, Igloolik Elder expresses his concerns for protection of marine mammals and wildlife and Inuit way of life, 'Don't hide anything from me.'

George Qulaut, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012 Igloolik, 8:58 English version, concerned that governments and Inuit organizations are not asking enough questions about the project, for example, will there be a Canada Customs checkpoint established at the Steensby Inlet port site for incoming supertankers?

Igloolik Mayor Nicholas Arnatsiaq, NIRB Final Public Hearings, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 3:36 Inuktitut, official welcome opens the Hearings in Igloolik.

Curtis Taqqaugaq, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, 6:04 original English. Curtis is Igloolik Youth Representative and presents his comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development from the youth point of view.

Celina Irngaut, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, 14:51 English Version. Celina is a professional translator. She comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development as the final speaker on the day of Community Roundtable when local people can ask to speak.… Read more