Inuktitut

ᑕᑯᒋᓇᐃᒃᑯᑦ ᖃᑕᙳᑎᒌᑦ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᕝᕕᐅᑦᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᕝᕕᑦᓯᐅᖅᑐᐃᑦ.
The Takuginai family celebrate the Christmas holidays.

ᓛᓚ ᑕᐅᑐᑦᓯᐊᙱᒻᒪᑦ ᐃᔨᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᒧᑦ ᐃᔨᖏ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᔭᕆᐊᓖᒃ.
Lala can’t see very well so she has to get an eye test.

 ᔮᓂ ᐊᕕᙵᐃᑦ ᒥᑦᓵᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕆᐅᓴᖅᑐᖅ.
Johnny learns all about himself and other lemmings for the first time.

Johnny Kublu: There is commercial fishing at Asta Lake on Gifford River which connects with Mary River, there will have to be studies on how the fish are effected by the mine.

The fish there is very tasty. Should be studies done on where the char migrates and its habitats, and on zooplankton and what the fishes eat.

MLA Paul Quassa: Is there going to be one track for the 3 trains or is there going to be more than 1 track?

Johnny Kublu QIA representative: with the plan to produce 30 tonnes a year the communities that are effected should recive proper infrastructure and the IIBA should be amended accordingly, and our food supply should be put into consideration.

Dominic Angutimarik: If the animals were to be effected, and our food source becomes limited, is there a plan for this? would we be compensated?

these animals are their food sources. They eat a lot of seals. The cost of living is very high, at the grocery store.

Lazaris suggesting royalties for those that use to live in Milne Inlet

I heard that 5 people got laid off because they were using their mother toung, there should be more workers fluent in inuktitut at the office at the camp site. The workers should learn Inuktitut if they want to work in Nunavut.

Lucy Tulugarjuk and Jenna Amarualik share some of their favourite books for children and older readers by Inuit authors and illustrators.

 Since the 1970’s, IBC has been recording Inuit stories from an Inuit perspective – an estimated 9,000 hours of unique footage. In 2015, we began the process of cataloguing and digitizing these videos and have created the Inuit Film and Video Archive. Videos can be accessed online at www.isuma.tv/ibc.… En savoir plus