Transportation 01

An illustrated book about transportation means and other vehicles. About the illustrator Nunga Echalook is a talented young illustrator who was born in Inukjuak, Nunavik. She discovered her talent and love of drawing while taking multi-media training at the vocational school in her community. In 2009, Nunga joined Avataq Cultural Institute’s publications team. Since then she …


Relations on Ungava Bay: An Illustrated History of Inuit, Naskapi, and Eurocanadian Interaction, 1800-1970

For hundreds of years, if not millennia, the Inuit and Naskapis relied on the food resources of the Ungava Peninsula. The Inuit focused their sights on the coastal marine life but also turned inland to hunt caribou. It was these vast migratory caribou herds that brought the Naskapis into the region from their forested base …


ᑕᖅᕋᒥᐅᑦ; The Northerners; Les Septentrionaux

Book’s extract: “The Northern Quebec Inuit Association was founded two years ago in Inukjuaq. It was established in response to rapidly changing conditions over which the Inuit apparently were to have little or no control. We were alarmed by assumptions  on the part of the white people in government and elsewhere that we were to …


Sipuuja can dress herself on her own

Written by Elsie Kasudluak Drawn by Qumaq Mangiuk Iyaituk


Reverend E.J. Peck AND the Inuit East of Hudson Bay (1876–1919)

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, …


Kuuvimmut iqalliatut

Story told by Mattiusi Manukuluk Iyaituk Written and drawn by Manu Qaunnaaluk


With the seasons

“With the seasons” exhibition catalog, presented at the McClure Gallery of the Visual Arts Centre from May 6 to 28, 2022. Curator: asinnajaq. Featuring artists: Aisa Alaasuaq Koperqualuk, Joe Talirunili, Jobie Qavavauq, Lucy Aullaq Uppattisiaq Weetaluktuk, Naluturuk Weetaluktuk, The Ivujivik Collective (Louisa Kanarjuaq, Passa Mangiuk, Qumaq M. Iyaituk, Lyne Bastien), Thomassie Mangiok, Tuumasi Kudluk and …