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The remarkable life of an Inuk hunter, river pilot and natural-born leader, who drew on his traditions to guide the Inuit of Northern Quebec past tragedies and loss, and towards the first modern land claims treaty in Canada.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
