" Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou, by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok, and the Kitikmeot Elders ".

* Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Inuit for traditional knowledge

* Qaujimajatuqangit and social problems in modern Inuit society.

The expertise of local elders and educators incorporated Inuit Traditional Law and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit throughout the four year program.

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit is a body of knowledge and unique cultural insights of Inuit into the workings of nature, humans and animals.

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, then, has both practical and epistemological aspects that branch out from a fundamental principle that human beings are learning, rational beings with an infinite potential for problem-solving within the dictates of nature and technology.

The Igloolik Research Centre in Igloolik, Nunavut focuses on documenting Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, as well as climatology and seismic data research.

" Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou, by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok, and the Kitikmeot Elders ".

" From TEK to IQ: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Inuit Cultural Ecology ".

Long regarded as a campsite and fishing spot by the Inuit, the place chosen had traditionally been named Iqaluit – " place of many fish " in Inuktitut – but Canadian and American authorities named it Frobisher Bay, after the name of the body of water it abuts.

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Furthermore, Canadians – both Inuit and non-Inuit – sometimes use the word Inuktitut to refer to all of the Inuit language variants, including those of Alaska and Greenland.

Kayaks ( Inuktitut: qajaq ( ᖃᔭᖅ ), Aleut: Iqyax ) were originally developed by the Eskimos ( who call themselves the Inuit ).

In the Inuit language Inuktitut, throat singing is called katajjaq, pirkusirtuk or nipaquhiit depending on the Canadian Arctic region.

The Inuit believed that all things had a form of spirit or soul ( in Inuktitut: anirniq-breath ; plural anirniit ), just like humans.

The Inuit who speak Inuktitut use parkas and the Inuit have various terms related to them as follows:

In November 2011, the NFB and partners including the Inuit Relations Secretariat and the Government of Nunavut introduced a DVD and online collection entitled Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories, which will make over 100 NFB films by and about Inuit available in Inuktitut and other Inuit languages, as well as English and French.

Pitseolak Ashoona, ( 1904 or 1907 or 1908 – 1983 ; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐊᓲᓇ ) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works.

Nunavik means " place to live " in the local dialect of Inuktitut and the Inuit inhabitants of the region call themselves Nunavimmiut.

Susan Aglukark, ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ suusan agluukkaq ), ( born 27 January 1967 ) is an Inuk musician whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada.

Grise Fiord, ( Inuktitut: Aujuittuq, " place that never thaws "; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ ) is a small Inuit hamlet in the Qikiqtaaluk Region in the territory of Nunavut, Canada.

Pond Inlet ( Inuktitut: Mittimatalik, in English the place where Mitima is buried ) is a small, predominantly Inuit community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada and is located at the top of Baffin Island.

* April 12 – Atanarjuat, first movie in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit people.

Inuktitut syllabics ( Inuktitut: ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ or ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ ) is a writing system ( specifically an abugida ) used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec.

; Nunavut: Means " our land " in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit.

An inuksuk ( plural inuksuit ) ( from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ ; alternatively inukshuk in English or inukhuk in Inuinnaqtun ) is a stone landmark or cairn built by humans, used by the Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America.

Nunavut developed enhanced training for teachers, created a Nunavut program for registered nurses and supported the very successful Akitsiraq Law School, built Nunavut's first trades school in Rankin Inlet, put in place the process and approvals for a Nunavut Cultural School slated for Clyde River, improved levels of post-secondary student financial assistance, and funded Inuit and Inuktitut / Inuinnaqtun curriculum development.

Rankin Inlet (; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ or Kangirliniq, ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ, meaning deep bay / inlet ) is an Inuit hamlet on Kudlulik Peninsula in Nunavut, Canada.

Pangnirtung ( or Pang, also Pangniqtuuq, in syllabics: ᐸᖕᓂᖅᑑᖅ ) is an Inuit hamlet, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island.

Inuktitut ( Inuktitut syllabics: ) or Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Inuit language is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada.

Arctic Bay ( 2011 Population: 823 ) ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ, Ikpiarjuk " the pocket ") is an Inuit hamlet located in the northern part of the Borden Peninsula on Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

Arviat ( 2011 population 2, 318 ; Population Centre 1, 810 ) ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ ; formerly called Eskimo Point until 1 June 1989 ) is a predominantly Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada.

Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of abugidas ( consonant-based alphabets ) used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and ( formerly ) Athabaskan language families.

Jessie Oonark, OC ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᔨᐊᓯ ᐅᓈᖅ ; 1906-March 2, 1985 ) was a Canadian Inuit artist who is best known for her wall hangings and her prints.

An ulu ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᐅᓗ, plural: uluit, English: " woman's knife ") is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Eskimo women, both Yupik and Inuit.

Qiviuq or qiviut (; Inuktitut syllabics, ᕿᕕᐅᖅ ; Inuinnaqtun, qiviuq ;; Inupiaq qiviu or qiviuq sometimes spelled qiveut ) is an Inuit word commonly used to indicate the wool of the muskox.

The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami ( ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ) is a nonprofit organization in Canada that represents over 50, 400 Inuit.

As such, it is the heir of the Northern Quebec Inuit Association ( Inuktitut: Kupaik Tarrangani Inuit Katujjiqatigiingit-ᑯᐸᐃᒃ ᑕᕐᕋᖓᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᖏᑦ ) which signed the agreement with the governments of Quebec and Canada.

Each band of Inuit understands its neighbours, and most likely its neighbours ' neighbours ; but at some remove, comprehensibility drops to a very low level.

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

Sun goddesses are found around the world ; in Arabia ( Al-Lat ), Australia ( Bila, Walo ), India ( Bisal-Mariamna, Bomong, Kn Sgni ) and Sri Lanka ( Pattini ); among the Hittites ( Wurusemu ), Egyptians ( Sekhmet ) and Babylonians ( Shapash ); in Native America, among the Cherokee ( Unelanuhi ), Natchez ( Wal Sil ), Inuit ( Malina ) and Miwok ( Hekoolas ).

Jack Iyerak Anawak, Member of Parliament from Nunatsiaq, Nunavut, suggested the name Nanuq polar bear in honour of Canada's Inuit people and their northern culture ; however, this culturally meaningful proposal went largely unnoticed beside the popular " toonie ".

The bladder would float and exhaust the whale when diving, and when it surfaces ; the Inuit hunters would spear it again, further exhausting the animal until they were able to kill it.

This part of Greenland was apparently unpopulated at the time when the Vikings arrived ; the direct ancestors of the modern Inuit Greenlanders are not thought to have arrived until around AD 1200 from the northwest.

For example, in some Inuit societies in the Arctic, and traditionally in Bali, mothers would routinely stroke the penises of their infant sons ; such behavior was considered no more sexual than breast-feeding.

On one side of the coin is the customary portrait of Queen Elizabeth ; on the other, 16th-century British explorer Martin Frobisher and a compass rose from his era, along with images of the ship he sailed in search of the fabled Northwest Passage and an Inuit man paddling his kayak in ice-choked waters.

Among the Yu ' pik near Kuskokwim Bay of Coastal Alaska, the word yua ( absolutive case form of the word yuk " human ; human-like spirite ") has similar connotations as that of the Iñupiaq of Northern Alaska, who similar to the Inuit call it inua.

In Inuit mythology, Adlivun ( those beneath us ; also known as Idliragijenget ) refers to both the spirits of the departed who reside in the underworld, and that underworld itself, located beneath the land and the sea.

In Inuit mythology, Silap Inua (' possessor of spirit ') or Silla (' breath, spirit ') was, similar to mana or ether, the primary component of everything that exists ; it is also the breath of life and the method of locomotion for any movement or change.

The monstrous race begotten by the Adlet was identified with inland native Americans by the Labrador and Hudson Bay tribes ; Inuit from Greenland and Baffin Land, which had no native American neighbors, use the term to refer to the half human, half canine creatures.

Franz Boas, an ethnologist who recorded many Inuit stories, gives an account of the origin of the Adlet ; he had heard the story in Baffin Land, specifically in Cumberland Sound from an Inuit named Pakaq.

In Central Africa, the Mpongwe believe in local spirits, just as do the Inuit ; but they are regarded as inoffensive in the main.

:* loss of access to important food sources, from competition with Inuit and Mi ' kmaqs as well as European settlers ;

Oral histories asserted that a few Beothuk survived for some years around the region of the Exploits River, Twillingate, Newfoundland ; and Labrador ; and formed unions with European colonists, Inuit and Mi ' kmaq.

In extreme cases, groups may take an exonym as being pejorative ; one prominent example is the case of the Inuit of Canada, who are often grouped together with the linguistically related but distinct Yupik people by the exonym Eskimo.

Although some indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere did have domestic dogs or caninae ; including the current Southwestern US, Aztec and other Central American peoples, the inhabitants of the Arctic / Tundra regions ( Inuit, Aleut, Cree ), and possibly some South American groups similar to South American fox ( Pseudalopex culpaeus ) or Yagan dog, during the conquest of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors used Spanish Mastiffs and other Molossers in battle against the Taínos, Aztecs and Mayans.

Greenlandic Inuit are part of the Eastern Arctic group ; the Eastern Arctic Inuit of Canada and Alaska are part of the same music area as the Central Arctic Inuit, as opposed to the distinct styles of the Western Inuit.