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Interview with Joanasie Qappik about climate change, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, September 6, 2005. In Inuktitut with English translation.

Synopsis: A provocative film in which articulate young Indians test their inherent, tolerant philosophy against the more pragmatic ideas of Saul Alinsky. The Indians argue for a revision of the hundred-year-old Indian Act by peaceful persuasion. Alinsky advocates a more direct development of power to bring about the changes they seek.

Interviews in Inuktitut with: Atuat, Iqallijuq and Tatiggaq
Location: Igloolik
Year: 1974
Camera: Garry Pearce or Bernard Saladdin d'Anglure

Digitized from videotape 3M

Digitized by MediaPreserve
Received Friday Nov. 30, 2012

Released is a film about Karen Nicloux, a member of the Nacho Nyak Dun First Nations in Mayo, Yukon. For years Karen struggled with drug abuse. She was in and out of jail for drug dealing in the Yukon. On one of her stints in jail, she picked up a needle and thread and began sewing a butterfly sash/belt and hasn't stop sewing. 

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

 Jimy Sidlar Bebonang
Born: Wed., Jun. 15, 1955
Reborn: Thu., Oct. 6, 2016

I give all the credit to Jimy Sidlar and my late foster mother Anne Bilan and her son for developing my musical training and experience. Auntie Ann for getting us piano lessons, her son Bill Bilan for getting me guitar lessons, 1969, and Jimy for shaping my voice.