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- Created in 1999 out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut encompasses the traditional lands of the Inuit, the indigenous peoples of Arctic Canada (known as Eskimo in the United States); its name means “Our Land” in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit.
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3 days ago · It has two writing systems: roman letters and a syllabic system developed in the 19th century by European missionaries. The territorial government recognizes Inuinnaqtun, an Inuktitut dialect spoken in western Nunavut and written in roman letters, as one of the territory’s four main languages (Inuktitut, English, and French are the other three).
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5 days ago · Anawak, a residential school survivor, said it’s important to preserve the language to help overcome the trauma of the past. At the residential school, he said, he and the other students were not allowed to speak Inuktitut. “We lost to white people. Our parents lost to white people. But we have to go beyond that,” Anawak said in Inuktitut.
1 day ago · A Guardian from Chesterfield Inlet, NU WWF-Canada. One of the ways WWF-Canada is supporting community-led conservation work in Nunavut is by helping communities to launch their own Indigenous Guardians Programs, or assist them in developing existing ones. Guardians programs provide Indigenous communities with the resources they need to launch ...
1 day ago · You see the problem. They, too, have had less-than-complimentary titles over the years: “cracker,” “honkey,” “Casper.”. It’s not pretty. I struggle with this as an Indigenous writer. The one that is most often used these days is “settler.”. The problem here is that many nouveau Canadians do not like the term.
1 day ago · It was a really great experience in how to lead with your heart and how to lead with your community first.”. The “Warrior Up” series is due to start airing at the beginning of May on APTN ...
2 days ago · Inuit (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t / IN-ew-it; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
- 70,540 (2021)
- 50,787 (2017)
- 16,470 (2018)
- 16,581 (2010)
1 day ago · This work aims to contribute to broader efforts in developing Nunavut-specific approaches to achieving Inuit self-determination in research. Number of social sciences projects in Nunavut from 2004 ...
