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To understand
who you are now, it helps a lot to learn about your culture's
past. Here are some enlightening sites dedicated to Inuit
culture.
Elders' Showcase
www.ilisaqsivik.ca/eng/elders/elders.html
At Ilisaqsivik
Society, Clyde River elders aid their community by teaching
about traditional Inuit lifestyles, making and collecting
artifacts in order to preserve Inuit heritage, and counselling
people on personal or cultural issues.
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/
They'll
eventually come home, but most of Nunavut's territorial archives
still reside at the territorial archives of the government
of the Northwest Territories. Site includes an awesome
photo database.
Interviewing Inuit Elders
www.nunavut.com/traditionalknowledge/index.html
In 1996,
Nunavut Arctic College invited Inuit elders to be interviewed
by students of their Oral Traditions course. Since then, Inuktitut/English
publications have been created on traditional perspectives
on law, childrearing practices, cosmology and shamanism, and
health. Read them online at this site.
Inuit Cultural Perspectives
collections.ic.gc.ca/cape_dorset/index2.html
Students
from Cape Dorset's Peter Pitseolak School in Cape Dorset and
Igloolik's at Atagutaaluk School worked to bring the recollections
of Inuit elders about the old days to the Internet.
Etuangat Inuit History Prize
www.uottawa.ca/associations/aucen-acuns/en/a_eihp_g.html
What
you've learned about your roots could net you a prize! Inuit
students in university or college may submit an essay on Inuit
history to the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern
Studies.
Avataq Cultural Institute
www.avataq.qc.ca/
Read
about cultural research projects being carried out by Inuit
of Nunavik (northern Quebec).
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