Isuma Non-Fiction

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  48m 3s

  Angakkuiit (Shaman Stories)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Inuit memories and experiences of shamanism, and oral histories about the last shamans practicing in the region of Igloolik, Nunavut. Interviewees range from young people to elders and politicians, but they all share a belief that things happen, and that shamanism is still a living religion.

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  50m 37s

  Artcirq

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Exploring Inuit Culture Online

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  Artcirq.

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  51m 23s

  Ajainaa! (Almost!)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Ajainaa! features Igloolik Elders discussing their views of contemporary Inuit life. Topics include the role of Inuit and "Southern" forms of education, survival strategies (such as how to save a drowning victim), and the differences between camp and settlement life. Written, produced, and performed by Isuma's Uqallangniq Elders Group.

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  48m 15s

  Nanugiurutiga (My First Polar Bear)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

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  Nanugiurutiga (My First Polar Bear), Igloolik Isuma Productions 2000, Director Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut w/English s-t.

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  50m 45s

  Nipi (Voice)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands.… Read more

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  52m 32s

  Arviq! (Bowhead!)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  In 1994, fulfilling the wish of 94 year-old Noah Piugattuk to taste whale-skin maqtaq once again before he passes away, a group of Igloolik hunters illegally catches a bowhead whale after years of government prohibition. This event which sparks a legal controversy, the hunters are charged, government policy is resisted, then changed..

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