In 2012 Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipset spoke with elders about the impact of mining projects.
Interviews with Augustine Taqqaugaq, Abraham Ulayuruluk, Louis Uttak, Vivi Kunuk who talk about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
Interview with Nuluujaat Land Guardian, and their lawyer Lori Idlout, to discuss the Mary River Phase 2 proposal and their protest.
The Nuluujaat Land Guardians drove by snowmobile Feb. 4 from Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay to Mary River, where they blockaded the tote road and airstrip until Feb. 11.
The history of changes experienced by Inuit people in the last sixty years is contained in the stories of Vivi Kunuk. 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.
<p class="en">In the feature documentary, Silakut, filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk talks to people from the five Northern Baffin Communities affected by the proposed expansion of the Mary River Mine.
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?
Zacharias Kunuk and his guests from Clyde River, Pond Inlet, Arctic Bay and Igloolik share their opinions on the Mary River mine and discuss what they want to see changed.
