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Francois Paulette delivers his keynote at Health Canada's - First Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Pan-Arctic Results Workshop, held in Ottawa February 7-10, 2011.

Inuit memories and experiences of shamanism, and oral histories about the last shamans practicing in the region of Igloolik, Nunavut. Interviewees range from young people to elders and politicians, but they all share a belief that things happen, and that shamanism is still a living religion.

À les regarder voler dans les airs, planer si gracieusement, défier sans cesse les lois de la physique, à applaudir leur fluidité sur terre et dans les airs, on ne peut que difficilement imaginer la somme de travail physique et de prouesses techniques qu’il a fallu pour en arriver là.… Uqalimakkanirit

"Un mensaje para los jóvenes es que se integren a algún grupo de expresión artística para despejarse y salir de lo común. Es una manera de asumir responsabilidades y eso te da fuerza".

Maira Roses, 19 años, Paso de los Toros

In March 2013 American John Huston, Norwegian Tobias Thorleifsson, Canadian Hugh Dale-Harris, and South African Kyle O’Donoghue, an expedition videographer, will traverse 630 miles on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Powered by wind, muscle, and four canine skijoring companions the expedition will travel through one of the last untouched wildernesses on the planet.

In my end is my beginning: Part One, Joseph Verge, by Norman Cohn with Gillian Robinson. 42 mins. Springdale, Newfoundland. (c) Norman Cohn Video 1983. One day in the life of Mr. Verge, age seventy-nine, reflecting on life and love.