Between the Lines – A girl’s first tattoos, usually done in the face, on the forehead, cheeks or chin …


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Letters from Nunavut’s Next Generation

Nunavut’s Next Generation: Life in Iqaluit By Patrick White, Jan. 21, 2014 Few people have a better window on Nunavut’s youth than John Fanjoy, and few people are so irrepressibly optimistic about …

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Our Language, Our Selves

By Alexina Kublu & Mick Mallon,

“…Is there a Canadian culture? Is there an Inuit culture? An Inuktitut word for “way of life” is inuusiq. Based on the word for person, inuk, it means something like “the way of being a person.” Is there a connection between the language I speak and the person I am? Let us tell you a story.
Some years ago, Kublu applied for a job with an Inuit organization in Ottawa, and dashed off the usual résumé. On checking it over, however, she thought, “But this is an Inuit organization. If the person who reads this résumé is a traditional Inuk, what will he think of it, and of me?”
So she translated it into Inuktitut . . . and it sounded arrogant, boastful, and cold, cold, cold. Then she sat down and wrote a résumé directly in Inuktitut. It came out fine, until she translated it into English. The English version was vague, unfocused, even wimpy!…”

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Just think what the next generation [of Inuit] will be able to do.

Mark Kalluak “… Born in 1942, and raised traditionally on the western shore of Hudson Bay, Mark Kalluak was an author, Inuktitut literacy, cultural heritage and language coordinator, Kalluak was widely known as an expert on Inuit culture and language. As a businessman and former Arviat mayor, Kalluak received the Order of Canada in October of 1991 for his work in literacy, and worked tirelessly to ensure traditional knowledge was a staple of Nunavut school curriculum. The following is the first editorial written for Arviat Television by Kalluak who sadly passed away three weeks after writing this commentary…”

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