Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

Join Moderator Tiffany Ayalik and speakers James Dommek Jr., Byron Nicholai and Julia Ogina for a conversation about the past, present and future of Inuit music with four practicing artists. Alyson ...

Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1/2, L'OEUVRE DE KNUD RASMUSSEN / THE WORK OF KNUD RASMUSSEN (1988), pp. 235-243 (9 pages) In the 1970's, the expression of Inuit identity was no longer confined to ...

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one generation to the next. Inuktitut is threatened by dominant ...

The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) has taken to social media to encourage the increased usage of Inuktitut, the Inuit language. Based in the Qikiqtani (Baffin) Region of Nunavut, Canada’s youngest ...

When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him. Whitman, president of the Native Women's Association of ...

EVERYONE KNOWS the Eskimos have dozens, if not hundreds, of words for snow because of their intimate knowledge of their environment. Except that everyone cannot “know” this, because knowledge requires ...

Call him Norman of the North — or the Wandering Jew. That’s the best way to explain how cinematographer Norman Cohn of Washington Heights, N.Y., moved to the Canadian Arctic and shot the first ...

Kelly Fraser, a Canadian pop artist who gained attention for an Inuit-language cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” part of her advocacy efforts for her indigenous culture, died Dec. 24 in Winnipeg. She was ...