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NTI’s mission is to implement "Inuit economic, social and cultural well-being" through the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. NTI originated as a political activist body. Although it is now an organization with significant responsibilities for administering the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA), it continues as an advocate for the rights of ...
People of a Feather: Joel Heath: 2011: Documentary [181] The People of the Kattawapiskak River: Alanis Obomsawin: 2012: Documentary [90] A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption: Curtis Kaltenbaugh: 2007: Documentary [182] Portraits from a Fire: Trevor Mack: 2021: Comedy-drama [183] Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place: Alanis Obomsawin: 1987 ...
The organization is meant to promote social equality for Inuit women, children's rights, and the improvement of living conditions for Inuit women. It also strives to obtain a larger role for Inuit women in Canadian politics, to preserve Inuit culture, and to encourage personal independence among Inuit women. [2]
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is a transnational non-governmental organization representing 150,000 Inuit people across the Circumpolar North. The ICC began originally as an Inuit Circumpolar Conference, first held in 1977, and gradually evolved to become a Council in the 10th General Assembly meeting of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference ...
In the early 1960s, the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering, called the "Eskimo Experiment." Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families in the Arctic and were sent to Ottawa, the nation's capital, to live with white families and to be educated in white schools. [13] 2009: Unseen Tears: Documentary short
Iivit or Tunumiit are Indigenous Greenlandic Inuit from Iivi Nunaa, Tunu in the area of Kangikajik and Ammassalik, the eastern part of Inuit Nunaat (East Greenland).The Iivit live now mainly in Tasiilaq and Ittoqqortoormiit and are a part of the Arctic people known collectively as the Inuit.
The film explores the small but burgeoning community of LGBT Inuit living in Nunavut, amidst the backdrop of the establishment of an LGBT Pride festival in the territorial capital of Iqaluit; [2] the event took place just months after Iqaluit participated in the national campaign of raising and displaying the pride flag on public buildings for the duration of the 2014 Winter Olympics to ...
Arnaquq-Baril directed her first full-length film, Tunnit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos (2010), a personal documentary about her journey to explore the lost tradition of Inuit facial tattoos or kakiniit. [4] Between 2011 and 2018, Arnaquq-Baril has worked on five other films in various roles as producer, director and screenwriter.