English Skip to content About Books Other Material Order News Contact Poster CD Promotional products Tumivut Magazine 9 – The cultural magazine of the Nunavik Inuit 1997 – Kangirsuk Inuit generations Together, we help each other Arvik! In pursuit of the bowhead whale We still come across many bowhead whale bones in some of the … →
We still come across many bowhead whale bones in some of the places we hunt. I’ve heard stories about how the Inuit used to get together for those bowhead hunts. The people, mostly widows, who were left behind in the camps would sing songs as they waited for the men to come back from the …
Caroline Palliser Contact us if you want to receive with your order a booklet of English and French translations of this book (this booklet includes translations for the 4 children’s books of this series).
The Reverend Edmund James (E.J.) Peck (1850–1924) played a leading part, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the conversion of the Inuit in northeast Canada at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Peck’s importance as a missionary was well acknowledged during his lifetime. In 1904, for example, …
An illustrated book of animals from Nunavik, this little book teaches children how to count to ten.
“We were taught by our ancestors the names of the land, lakes, hills and islands, and we have an obligation to pass these on to our young people”. This is how Samwillie Annahatak from Kangirsuk describes the task that was carried out from 1983 to 1987: to compile the names of places known by the Inuit in the 15 regions of Nunavik.
