Announcements
ITK Announces Certified Candidates for 2025 Presidential Election
ITK will host its presidential election on September 18, 2025, following ITK’s Annual General Meeting to be held in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
Read the latest updates on Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Inuit in Canada.
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Return to the Sea
BEFORE HE DIED IN 2010, Naalak Nappaaluk loved being on a boat at sea, hunting beluga. The Kangiqsujuaq elder always brought a gun, but he preferred using his unaaq (harpoon), especially for bearded seal, says...
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Our Life’s Work
HUNTING HAS ALWAYS been foundational to Inuit values, perspectives, and ways of life. Hunting, and the knowledge, skills, values, language, and expertise related to hunting, are not taught in our school systems.
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Love at the Border
HERMAN AND CAROL OYAGAK first met at Kivgiq; an Iñupiat drum dancing celebration hosted in Utqiaġvik on Alaska’s North Slope.
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The Healing Power of Play
YOU ARE SIX years old, and you’re greeted by a stranger who says they’re your therapist. “Welcome to the playroom, you can do just about anything in here, and if there is anything you can’t...
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Fishing at Tasiraq
MY FATHER CAUGHT his first fish and his first caribou here. It’s also where I got my first black bear and where I grew up hunting birds and other animals. This place is called Tasiraq,...
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Hero of the small screen
FOR BRADEN KALUN JOHNSTON, it just makes sense to have a collection of uluit, Inuit art prints on his walls, and a freezer full of country food like tuktu and maktaaq in his urban Inuk...
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Strength from the sled
IN THE VAST expanse of Nunavut, where the land stretches out like an endless white canvas and the sky meets the horizon in a seamless blend of blue and white, the tradition of qimussiq, or...
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MANGILALUK
AFTER RUNNING AWAY from residential school, Bernard Andreason and his two best friends began a stressful 130‐ kilometre journey from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk. Bernard was the only one to survive.
