Arts, Culture & Education
Diving and dancing – Tales of the hunter’s knife
I think more so then anywhere else in the world knives hold a great fascination for Inuit. The hunters all have their preference and...
Preserving a disappearing culture through words
“I’ll show you something really stunning. It doesn’t exist anywhere else.” Norman Hallendy types inua into his computer. Within seconds a list of words...
An Arctic Residence Concept
A paradigm shift in design
Like many Inuit people, I give great credence to visions, waking dreams. They often transcend time and space pointing to...
Northern talent at Folk on the Rocks 2016
Despite financial setbacks that threatened the likelihood of it going ahead, this year’s Folk on the Rocks (FOTR) music festival in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories,...
The Dorset Effect – Art from Inuit’s finest
Four generations later, the artists of Cape Dorset continue a tradition of Inuit expression that makes this tiny hamlet on Nunavut’s Baffin Island a...
Governor General visits the Hudson Bay Region
In May of this year, my wife Sharon and I visited a number of communities located on or near the shores of Hudson Bay...
Inuit art and culture
Last summer, I had the privilege, along with my wife Hazel and son Roman, of touring the Heart of the Arctic on board the...
Pirurvik
Providing ‘a place to grow’ in Pond Inlet
The Pirurvik Preschool opened its doors in January 2016 and offers an Early Childhood Education (ECE) program...
The 5th Thule Atlas
Between 1921 and 1924, a Danish anthropological expedition led by the Inuktitut speaking anthropologist Knud Rasmussen completed the first comprehensive recording of traditional Inuit...
A Gathering Place
Piqalujaujaq, which means “the iceberg shaped building,” is a magnificent new building located at the shoreline in the heart of the community of Qikiqtarjuaq,...