My Father's Land website

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Louie Uttak NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 5:58 Inuktitut, Igloolik Elder expresses his concerns for protection of marine mammals and wildlife and Inuit way of life, 'Don't hide anything from me.'

Zacharias Kunuk with Lloyd Lipsett, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 1/2 3:13 English Version. Zacharias Kunuk, speaking Inuktitut, describes his childhood growing up in the heart of the Baffinland mining region, going to school in English, eventually becoming a filmmaker.

Zacharias Kunuk with Lloyd Lipsett, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 2/2 1:18 English Version. Zacharias Kunuk concludes his and Lloyd Lipsett's presentation calling for up to date media technology and an Interactive Multimedia Human Rights Impact Assessment.

 Lloyd Lipsett talks about the Human Rights Impact Assessment on July 19, 2012.

Louie Uttak NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 5:58 English version, Igloolik Elder expresses his concerns for protection of marine mammals and wildlife and Inuit way of life, 'Don't hide anything from me.'

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Moshi Kotierk, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012 Igloolik, 4:38 Inuktitut, on the issue of public confidence, 'Does the public have confidence in you?'

Moshi Kotierk, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012 Igloolik, 4:38 English version, on the issue of public confidence, 'Does the public have confidence in you?'

George Qulaut, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 23, 2012 Igloolik, 8:58 English version, concerned that governments and Inuit organizations are not asking enough questions about the project, for example, will there be a Canada Customs checkpoint established at the Steensby Inlet port site for incoming supertankers?

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Igloolik Mayor Nicholas Arnatsiaq, NIRB Final Public Hearings, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 3:36 Inuktitut, official welcome opens the Hearings in Igloolik.

Igloolik Mayor Nicholas Arnatsiaq, NIRB Final Public Hearings, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, 3:36 Inuktitut, official welcome opens the Hearings in Igloolik.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Gamaillie Qiluqisaq, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20 2012, Iqaluit, 3:51 Inuktitut, asks why mining royalties only flow to NTI and Inuit organizations or governments but not directly to the impacted communities like Pond Inlet.

Gamaillie Qiluqisaq, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20, 2012, Iqaluit, 3:51 English version, asks why mining royalties only flow to NTI and Inuit organizations or governments but not directly to the impacted communities like Pond Inlet. NOTE Audio Mute first 54 seconds, advance to 54:00 to hear English translation.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ James Etuluk, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20, 2012, Iqaluit, 4:14 Inuktitut, response by NTI Vice-President to Gamaillie Qiluqisaq's comment about royalties to Inuit organizations but not to communities.

James Etuluk, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20, 2012, Iqaluit, 4:14 English version, response by NTI Vice-President to Gamaillie Qiluqisaq's comment about royalties to Inuit organizations but not to communities.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Okalik Ejitsiak, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20, 2012, Iqaluit, 6:33 Inuktitut, response by QIA President to Gamaillie Qiluqisaq's comment about royalties to Inuit organizations but not to communities.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Mary Wellman, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20 2012, Iqaluit, 7:44 Inuktitut, makes a presentation about Socio-Economic concerns. 

Mary Wellman, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20 2012, Iqaluit, 7:44 English version, makes a presentation about Socio-Economic concerns.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Adamie Alaku, NIRB Final Public Hearings, July 19, 2012, Iqaluit, 4:48 Inuktitut, presentation by Makkivik Corporation of Nunavik (northern Quebec).

Adamie Alaku, NIRB Final Public Hearings, July 19, 2012, Iqaluit, 4:48 English version Part 1 of 2, presentation by Makkivik Corporation of Nunavik (northern Quebec).

Curtis Taqqaugaq, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, 6:04 original English. Curtis is Igloolik Youth Representative and presents his comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development from the youth point of view.

Celina Irngaut, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, 14:51 English Version. Celina is a professional translator. She comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development as the final speaker on the day of Community Roundtable when local people can ask to speak.

Lucie Idlout, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, Part 1/2 10:47 original English. Lucie is Igloolik Economic Development Officer and presents her comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development and the NIRB Final Public Hearings.

Lucie Idlout, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, Part 2/2 11:03 original English. Lucie is Igloolik Economic Development Officer and presents her comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development and the NIRB Final Public Hearings.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Zacharias Kunuk with Lloyd Lipsett, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 1, 2:32, original Inuktitut. Zacharias Kunuk, speaking Inuktitut, describes his childhood growing up in the heart of the Baffinland mining region, going to school in English, eventually becoming a filmmaker.

Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett present Human Rights Intervention July 23, 2012 at Nunavut Impact Review Board Public Hearing on Baffinland Mary River Project. English version. For complete WRITTEN English submission see also Zacharias Kunuk, My Father's Land, English Intervention.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 1/4 7:16 Inuktitut Version. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current internation

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 2/4 9:07 Inuktitut Version. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current internation

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 3/4 6:52 Inuktitut Version. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 4/4, 5:09 Inuktitut Version. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for huma

Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 2/5 7:15, original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments and why human ri

Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 3/5 9:06 original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments and why human rights impact assessment and monitori

Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 4/5, 6:51 original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments

Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 5/5 5:09 original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments and why human rights impact assessment and monitoring is important to protect Inuit dealing with the Baffinland Mary River mining project. See Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

MINING.com, Frik Els | August 9, 2012, Mining Watch Canada, an NPO, tells the CBC that the Qikiqtani Inuit Association needs to adopt a code of conduct to rule out any conflicts of interest because the organization’s president is on a junket at the London Olympics as a guest of ArcelorMittal this week.

Mary River project owner bankrolls Olympic trip for three Inuit org reps, DAVID MURPHY, nunatsiaqonline, August 3, 2012. See below with 56 comments. Download PDF version with comments at left.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ July 25, 2012, Part 3 afternoon, Igloolik Community Roundtable Inuktitut live radio feed from NIRB Baffinland Mary River Final Public Hearings. 

The final hearings into Baffinland's project wrapped up on the weekend.... Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk is in the middle of capturing the life and land of Nunavut on film. "What I want to do is record the wildlife, the land, the beauty of the land," he said. "That's the project we're doing right now – to record it now, elders who are living now, and do it again in 10 years" ... Besides documenting the environmental change, Kunuk has hired a human rights lawyer to study the project. See full story at Zacharias Kunuk hires human rights lawyer. 

July 31, 2012, The mayor of Igloolik, Nunavut, announced he will step down from his position due to a potential conflict of interest. Nicolas Arnatsiaq was elected mayor in December. He's also an employee of Baffinland Iron Mines, which is proposing to build a massive iron ore mine at Mary River, and Igloolik will be one of the affected communities if the mine gets approved. Arnatsiaq said he will formally resign next month.See full story at Igloolik Mayor Conflict of Interest

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett Live Radio Call-in, July 27, 2012, summary report from first two days of Pond Inlet NIRB Baffinland Final Public Hearings July 26-27, 57:40, English and simultaneous Inuktitut by Celina Irngaut.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ July 25, 2012, Part 2, Inuktitut live radio feed from Igloolik Community Roundtable Wednesday, 87:19, Inuktitut, morning session Part 2, Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Baffinland Mary River Final Public Hearing Day 3 in Igloolik, Nunavut. Community members have the opportunity to ask questions or make comments to NIRB Board, to Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ July 25, 2012, Part 1, Inuktitut live radio feed from Igloolik Community Roundtable Wednesday, 71:46, Inuktitut, morning session Part 1, Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Baffinland Mary River Final Public Hearing Day 3 in Igloolik, Nunavut. Community members have the opportunity to ask questions or make comments to NIRB Board, to Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ NIRB Mary River Public Hearing Live from Igloolik Monday July 23, 2012, Part 2 afternoon, 311:14, Inuktitut Version, final questions to Baffinland's presentation, Human Rights Intervention by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, other intervenors.

Final hearings for the Mary River project continued in Igloolik today—one of the first summery days of the season—in the Attaguttaaluk high school gym. As ice cleared from the bay at the centre of town, hunters and families fuelled up their boats and Mayor Nick Arnatsiaq gave a warm welcome to presenters, saying, “this community feels that the project should go ahead, but again, NIRB will decide on the side of the majority,” full story see baffinlandwitness.com.

ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ NIRB Mary River Public Hearing Live from Igloolik Monday July 23, 2012, Part 1, 100:57, Inuktitut Version. Chair Elizabeth Copeland introduces Igloolik Elder Louis Uttak for an opening prayer, then a welcome from Igloolik Mayor Nick Arnatsiaq, then the first part of Baffinland's presentation covering project components and the marine/terrestrial environment.

 **Igloolik Baffinland NIRB Final Public Hearings LIVE Broadcast** Tune-in to Nipivut Nunatinnii Monday-Wednesday July 23-25 to listen to the INUKTITUT audio LIVE from the Baffinland hearings in Igloolik.

See Also  DID Digital Indigenous Democracy.My Inuit Point of View by Dr. Zacharias Kunuk O.C.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ NIRB Iqaluit Baffinland Final Public Hearings Summary Report Live Call-in, July 21, 2012, 57:23, in English and Inuktitut, DID human rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett summarizes the first week of Final Public Hearings in Iqaluit and explains how the Hearings will work in Igloolik starting tomorrow, Monday, July 23 to July 25.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Dr. Zacharias Kunuk O.C. Part 1, 5:16 June 4, 2012, Inuktitut, see also Part 2, see also Part 3, My Father's Land, Formal Intervention to NIRB Final Public Hearing, Mary River Project, (Oral Inuktitut) July 2012; Dr. Zacharias Kunuk film maker, hunter, grandfather talks about growing up and his introduction to films and film making and his Inuk Point of View on mining and development in his father's land. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Theo Ikkumaq talking about Steensby Inlet and wildlife, Live Radio Call-in, June 7, 2012, 124:22, Inuktitut and English, Host, Lucassi Ivalu with Igloolik Wildlife Officer and hunter, Theo Ikkumaq. See also Q&A with Theo at baffinlandwitness.com.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ "Feed My Children," Nunavut Food Protests Live Radio Call-in, June 11, 2012, 145:43, host Lucassi Ivalu with food price protester Simona Arnatsiaq, Coop executive Rod Welch and Northern executive Micheal McMullan, radio producer Mark Airut.

In contrast to NTI’s nine-minute contribution to final hearings on the Mary River project (NIRB allotted 20 minutes for its presentation), QIA took a thorough, critical and aggressive stance in its hearing presentation on a number of issues, such as socioeconomics, impacts on land and marine mammals, ballast water, the port at Steensby Inlet, Inuit [...] See full story at     baffinlandwitness.com.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ NIRB Iqaluit Baffinland Final Public Hearings Live Radio Call-in, July 17, 2012, 86:22, Inuktitut AND English, DID human rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett summarizes the presentations on the first day of the technical hearings, first by the NIRB Chairperson, second by Erik Madsen, Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.

After over ten hours of presentations and discussions, the first day of Mary River’s final hearings closed at 9:30pm, two items behind schedule, with the intimation of many yet unanswered questions to come. Baffinland president Tom Paddon opened the hearing with a speech, in Inuktitut and English, on the significant, long-term investment that a mine [...] See full story at     baffinlandwitness.com.

Final Baffinland hearings start in Iqaluit, The Iqaluit hearing begins Monday with a presentation from Baffinland, the company which hopes to build the mine. "I think we've done a lot of goodwork ... See full story cbc.caMary River project good for Nunavut and Inuit, Baffinland boss says, Tom Paddon, president and CEO of Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., said on themorning of July 16 that the relationship between Inuit and his company is key to ... See full story nunatsiaqonline

Malachi Arreak worked as a regional land negotiator on the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in the early 1990s and negotiated the Qikiqtani region’s first IIBA, for the Sirmilik National Park, across Eclipse Sound from Pond Inlet. Last week, I talked with him about the NLCA in relation to Mary River, as well a project he’s working on, the Tununiq beneficiaries corporation, to ensure Pond Inletmiut see direct benefits from Baffinland...See full story at baffinlandwitness.com.

July 12, 2012, DID human rights lawyer, Lloyd Lipsett, previews on Igloolik Community Radio the Human Rights Intervention he will present at the NIRB Final Public Hearing on the Mary River Project in Iqaluit July 18, with simulatneous oral Inuktitut translation of Lloyd by Celina, English and Inuktitut

Full story at baffinlandwitness.com. Last Tuesday, QIA negotiator Paul Quassa spoke over Igloolik community radio to summarize the 24-article Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement (IIBA) offer the association made to Baffinland earlier this month. QIA expects to receive an answer from the mining company within the next month. Negotiations on the IIBA must be completed before the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) can make a recommendation on whether the mine should go ahead to the minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Quassa’s summary is translated below.CLICK HERE for the complete summary.

Full story at baffinlandwitness.com. BW: You’ve been mayor of Igloolik since January. Can you tell me a little bit about your background? NA: My real profession is interpreter-translator—I had a private business as an interpreter-translator in Iqaluit—but I’ve been many things. I was executive assistant for the Baffin Region Council, I worked in Ottawa as an assistant editor for an Inuktitut magazine and as an interpreter for ITC, also when I lived down south. In Igloolik, I was economic development officer, president of the Co-op and was vice-deputy mayor some years ago. And I’ve been Baffinland’s community liaison officer here for five years now.CLICK HERE for the complete interview.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ QIA and Mary River IIBA Part 3, June 27, 2012, 177:11, live call-in about Baffinland Mary River Impact and Benefits Agreement (IIBA) and QIA negotiations, with QIA President Okalik Eegeesiak, Mary River Project Coordinator Solomon Awa, Baffinland Working Committee member Solomon Mikki and QIA Igloolik Board Member Zacharias Kunuk.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ QIA and Mary River IIBA Part 2, June 26, 2012, 175:05, live call-in about Baffinland Mary River Impact and Benefits Agreement (IIBA) and QIA negotiations, hosted by Lucassi Ivalu with QIA President Okalik Eegeesiak, Mary River Project Coordinator Solomon Awa, QIA IIBA negotiators Paul Quassa and Phillip Paniaq.

Tuesday night – The Mary River IIBA and QIA. Get information on what is an IIBA, who is on QIA’s team, what are some of the things that will be in an IIBA and where are negotiations. Call in if you have questions.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ QIA and Mary River IIBA Part 1, June 25, 2012, 202:13, live call-in about Baffinland Mary River Impact and Benefits Agreement (IIBA) and Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) negotiations, hosted by Lucassi Ivalu with QIA President Okalik Eegeesiak, Mary River Project Coordinator Solomon Awa, Baffinland Working Committee member Solomon Mikki and Igloolik QIA representat

Full story at baffinlandwitness.com. "When I was a child, we would live out on the land. And I grew up on Baffin, where there were always mountains around us. I loved Baffin because it has colour, it has landscape. It has plants you can eat, not just plants you can see, and we picked and ate blueberries and blackberries there all summer."CLICK HERE for the complete interview

"A timeline of the Mary River project—and Baffinland Iron Mines’ part in it—from 1962 to present..." CLICK HERE for full article.

Nunatsiaq News: Nunavut human rights system needs big changes

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Alvin Sandy Part 1, 5:00, see also Part 2,  Part 3,  Part 4,  Part 5, Inuktitut-English, June 7, 2012, by Terry Uyarak and Joey Ammaq to talk about what the mining around Baffin Island will effect the people and the animals and the environment.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Bonnie Ammaq Part 1, 3:09, see also Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Inuktitut-English, June 1, 2012, by Terry Uyarak and Joey Ammaq to talk about what her views are towards the outpost camp she use to live in and what impact the mining will have.

Full Story at baffinlandwitness.com. "I want to film the area, I want to film the wildlife, I want to film the port site, Ikpikitturjuaq, which everybody is talking about. Then I came up with a documentary and put a new title on it, My Father’s Land. Just take people out, take them back to the land where they used to live and talk about what they did, what was going on there. So it’s all connected. We’re trying to let people talk; talk about what they think because mining is all around us."CLICK HERE to read the article.

Mark Airut, Igloolik Radio Manager, says:"I have been working and recording with Ashley and Celina with protesters near Northern store and have few recording in english and inuktitut and we will have a phone in show tomorrow monday June 11,at 8pm to 10pm and play those recordings we did and also Simona Arnatsiaq also was protesting in Ottawa will be with us on the phone."

Emile Immaroitok with Bernard Saladin d'Anglure 1972, 10:01 ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Inuktitut and English, French sub-titles. Assembled into a trailer of Zacharias Kunuk videos filmed over years on the hunt and in Igloolik, editor Carol Kunnuk.Bernard Saladin d’Anglure: So Immaroitok, you arrived at your camp at Steensby Inlet?Emile Immaroitok: Yes.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Mary Qulitalik Part 1, 3:04, see also Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012, by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Peter Awa interview Part 1, 5:09, see also Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012, by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atanarjuat Song, 5:10, Inuktitut, sung by a Pond Inlet woman named Paingut Peterloosie. READ BELOW the words translated in English by Zacharias Kunuk. Camera, Zacharias Kunuk, Editor, Carol Kunnuk.I’m going to sing my Ayaya song.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Dr. Zacharias Kunuk O.C. Part 3, 4:29 June 4, 2012, Inuktitut, see also Part 1, see also Part 2, My Father's Land, Formal Intervention to NIRB Final Public Hearing, Mary River Project, (Oral Inuktitut) July 2012; Dr. Zacharias Kunuk film maker, hunter, grandfather talks about growing up and his introduction to films and film making and his Inuk Point of View on mining and development in his father's land. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Zacharias Kunuk call-in radio, invites Igloolik community input to July 23 NIRB Formal Intervention, June 5 2011, Part 1 9:47 original Inuktitut.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Zacharias Kunuk hunting and filming at the flow edge with other men from Igloolik, April 1 and 3 2012. 8:00 by Zacharias Kunuk; editor Carol Kunnuk.

Canada and the EITI – A Call For Transparency and Accountability in the Extractive Resource Sector

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Vivi Kunuk, Part 1, 4:02, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. See also Part 2, Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett ask Vivi about mining and the past and present situation with Inuit.

Aboriginal Affairs minister John Duncan has decided to reject the re-appointment of the NIRB’s chairman Lucassie Arragutainaq. Arragutainaq was considered by many to be an excellent chairman. As chairman, Arragutainaq made the final decision when the eight-person board was split 50/50.

DID News Alert Full story at baffinlandwitness.com June 5, 2012. Review agencies submit final comments to NIRB before July hearings.

Wildlife Impact Radio Call-in show, June 6, 2012, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ and English, 119:21, hosted by Lucasie Ivalu and Theo Ikkumaq, Igloolik Wildlife Officer, with guest wildlife biologist on-line discussing Inuit knowledge about wildlife impacts in Foxe Basin and Steensby Inlet and learning of other regions like Alaska where impacts of mining and development have been recorded, or cha

June 5, 2012, Call-in Radio, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inform and Consult, 122:31, Zacharias Kunuk discussing with his community his Formal Intervention to NIRB Technical Public Hearing on Mary River Project, to be filed June 8.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Steve Sarpinak Part 1, 5:02 Inuktitut June 1, 2012. See also Part 2. Interview by Terence Uyarak of Artcirq about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Steve Sarpinak Part 2, 5:10 Inuktitut June 1, 2012. See also Part 1. Interview by Terence Uyarak of Artcirq about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Christopher Piugattuk Part 1, 3:47 Inuktitut-English May 11, 2012.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Christopher Piugattuk Part 3, 5:03 Inuktitut-English May 11, 2012. See also Part 1. See also Part 2. An Interview with one of the hunters in Igloolik, Nunavut on May 11, 2012. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

Emile Immaroitok talks to anthropologist Bernard Saladin d'Anglure in the 1970's, 3:32 ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in Inuktitut and in English, with French sub-titles.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 1, 5:09, see also Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012, by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

Rebecca Malliki from Igloolik speaks with Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have for Inuit and local wildlife. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 3, 5:08, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Rebecca Malliki Part 4, 3:16, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife. 

Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett speak with Rebecca Malliki from Igloolik about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Jason Palluq of Clyde River, Part 1, 5:25, see: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. An elder from Clyde River who was in Igloolik and we had a chance to interview him about what he thinks of the mining projects.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Jason Palluq of Clyde River, Part 2, 3:18, see: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. An elder from Clyde River who was in Igloolik and we had a chance to interview him about what he thinks of the mining projects.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Jason Palluq of Clyde River, Part 3, 5:49, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. An elder from Clyde River who was in Igloolik and we had a chance to interview him about what he thinks of the mining projects.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Jason Palluq of Clyde River, Part 4, 2:36, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. An elder from Clyde River who was in Igloolik and we had a chance to interview him about what he thinks of the mining projects.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Jason Palluq of Clyde River, Part 5, 3:56, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. An elder from Clyde River who was in Igloolik and we had a chance to interview him about what he thinks of the mining projects.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ RADIO Call-in of Igloolik Call-in May 30, 2012 8pm EST. 118 minutes, Inuktitut. Zacharias Kunuk, Igloolik representative to QIA Board, reports to his community on recent QIA meetings and issues. Hosted by Lucasie Ivalu.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Augustine Taqqaugaq Part 1, 4:37, see: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Mary Ammaq, Part 1 of 4, 4:29, see: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Mary is one of the elders in Igloolik, Nunavut. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Mary Ammaq, Part 2 of 4, 4:52, see: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Mary is one of the elders in Igloolik, Nunavut. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Mary Ammaq, Part 3 of 4, 5:26, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Mary is one of the elders in Igloolik, Nunavut. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Mary Ammaq, Part 4 of 4, 5:41, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Mary is one of the elders in Igloolik, Nunavut. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ George Qattalik, Igloolik, 8:39, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

DID News Alert Mining and caribou– What is a “significant impact”?

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Augustine Taqqaugaq, Part 2, 5:07 See: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.This interview talks about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Augustine Taqqaugaq Part 3, 4:17, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Augustine Taqqaugaq Part 4, 3:25, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Augustine Taqqaugaq Part 5, 4:20, see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, Igloolik, Nunavut, about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife. 

DID News Alert  May 28, 2012. With the July community hearings coming soon, Baffinland presented a document called “"What to Expect When You Are Expecting," on May 3rd in Iqaluit. In this document, the company explains how the public hearings will take place.

Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett speak with Vivi Kunuk from Igloolik about mining and the past and present situation with Inuit. ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Vivi Kunuk, Part 2, 3:35, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Abraham Ulayuruluk Part 1, 5:04 Inuktitut-English. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 by Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett, May 11, 2012.Abraham talks about what he thinks about the mining and what impact it will have.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Abraham Ulayuruluk Part 2, 4:50, Inuktitut-English, see also: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, May 11, 2012 by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett.Abraham talks about what he thinks about the mining and what impact it will have.  

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Abraham Ulayuruluk Part 3, 5:35 Inuktitut-English, see also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, May 11, 2012 by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett.Abraham talks about what he thinks about the mining and what impact it will have.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Abraham Ulayuruluk Part 4, 2:37 Inuktitut-English, see also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, May 11, 2012 by Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett.Abraham talks about what he thinks about the mining and what impact it will have. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Abraham Ulayuruluk Part 3, 5:35, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. By Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett. Abraham talks about what he thinks about the mining and what impact it will have.

DID News Alert On May 15th the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), an independent economic regulator under the authority of the Canadian Parliament that regulates air, rail and marine transportation according to the Canada Transport Act, met to discuss the Baffinland Mary River project’s railway and marine transportation plan.

DID News Alert “Nunavut’s lands and natural resources rightfully belong to Nunavummiut to develop and protect…reclaiming the ability to make decisions about how our lands and resources are managed is the next chapter in building self-reliance.” These are Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak’s words concerning

Igloolik Radio Call-in May 23, 2012 8pm EST. PART TWO of Discussion of Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and its role in relation to the Baffinland Iron Mine project going through environmental review.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Louis Uttak Part 1, 4:39 Inuktitut-English May 11, 2012. See also Part 2. See also Part 3. By Zacharias Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett.Louis is one of Igloolik's six members of the 42-member Baffinland Working Committee representing the seven impacted communities of Igloolik, Hall Beach, Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Kimmirut and Cape Dorset. Louis talks about the land and the animals, how things have changed since he was a child and how it can be affected by the mining that is going on.

DID News Alert “The mine had already started before they started talking about it. So what do you do? The decision has already been made.” see more at baffinlandwitness.com.May 21, 2012. A floor-to-ceiling wall of pelts guards the entrance to the Igloolik Elders’ centre. The air is thick and sour with a mix of curing fish and seal meat, fox fur and a caribou skin stretched out on a wooden frame in front of the hall coat closet. Where the shoes normally go, there’s a slick, [...]

Louis Uttak is one of Igloolik's six members of the 42-member Baffinland Working Committee representing the seven impacted communities of Igloolik, Hall Beach, Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Kimmirut and Cape Dorset. Louis talks about the land and the animals, how things have changed since he was a child and how it can be affected by the mining that is going on.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Louis Uttak, Part 3 of 3, 4:00 Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. See also Part 1. See Part 2.Louis is one of Igloolik's six members of the 42-member Baffinland Working Committee representing the seven impacted communities of Igloolik, Hall Beach, Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Kimmirut and Cape Dorset. Louis talks about the land and the animals, how things have changed since he was a child and how it can be affected by the mining that is going on.

Zacharias Kunuk talks about Inuit concerns with the proposed $6 billion Baffinland Iron Mine in Nunavut.  Kunuk was born in 1957 at Kapuivik, in the middle of the Baffinland impact region. He is an award-winning filmmaker, [former] Igloolik Hamlet Councilor and Officer of the Order of Canada. Filmed in 2012.

DID News Alert The NIRB Process. see more at baffinlandwitness.comMay 16, 2012. NIRB operates under the principle that public participation is an important element of an open, honest and balanced review process. Effective public participation strengthens the quality of the review process and helps to avoid potentialmisunderstandings and conflict. NIRB has a role to ensure that affected communities are aware of the project and its potential environmental [...] see more at baffinlandwitness.com

DID News Alert May 18, 2012. The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) has sent out a list of the key issues that will be discussed during the final community hearings in July. More ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Inuktitut Audio About NIRB. They are:Alternatives to Steensby Inlet portDestruction of inuksuit along the railwayRisks of accidents, spills, environmental disasters, and rescue response plan.Overwintering of fuel in barges and its environmental risks.Impact of shipping route on marine wildlife (walrus, bowhead, narhwals, belugas)Monitoring of water and soil pollution, risks of contamination of water sources.Environmental impact of railway, effect on caribou population.Follow this link for a complete collection of Baffinland's presentations during the Iqaluit technical meetings: ftp.nirb.ca/02-REVIEWS/ACTIVE%20REVIEWS/08MN053-BAFFINLAND%20MARY%20RIVER/2-REVIEW/08-FINAL%20EIS/05-TECHNICAL%20MEETING/BIMC%20PRESENTATIONS/All the presentations are in PDF files. More news at DID News Alert

DID News Alert May 17, 2012. After Iqaluit technical meetings, Baffinland claim Steensby Inlet still only viable port.

May 16, 2012 8pm EST. Discussion of Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and its role in relation to the Baffinland Iron Mine project going through environmental review. Hosted by Lucasie Ivalu and Abraham Tagalik, guests include Amanda Hanson, NIRB; Sandra Inutiq, Inuit lawyer; Lloyd Lipsett, human rights lawyer; with call-in questions and comments from Inuit about NIRB and Baffinland.

DID News Alert May 14, 2012. This past week, Iqaluit was the stage for Baffinland’s three-day technical meetings regarding the Mary River iron mine and it’s potential impacts.

DID News Alert May 11, 2012. For anyone who is interested in reading the Nunavut Impact Review Board's (NIRB) official policies and standards, particularly relating to the July community hearings, this is their document where all that information is. It is 27 pages. I attached an English version, and their Inuktitut version which is in syllabics.   

DID News Alert May 10, 2012. I thought I would shed a little light on who the owner of ArcelorMittal is, the company that owns Baffinland. The chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal is Lakshimi Mittal. According to Forbes magazine, he is the 21st richest person in the world and the 47th most powerful. He has a net worth of $20.7 billion dollars.

May 10, 2012 8pm EST. Part Two of two shows. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett continues his discussion of human rights and Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) with Inuit in relation to the Baffinland Iron Mine project going through environmental review. With call-in questions and comments from Inuit about Baffinland. May 10, 2012, 8 pm EST, podcast 150 minutes, in English and Inuktitut.

This show starts around 5:00 mins into the recording, move your clicker to 5:00 to start. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett introduces the concept of human rights and Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) to Inuit in relation to the Baffinland Iron Mine project going through environmental review.

DID News Alert May 10, 2012. A new concern has been raised about Baffinland’s proposed 150-kilometre railway from the mine to Steensby Inlet. The railway will run along a chain of roughly 100 inuksuit that extends for over six kilometres near the mouth of Steensby Inlet.

Read the updated Fact Sheet and Plain Language Summary of Digital Indigenous Democracy Overview as the project launches in May 2012. Read here or download attached PDF (see link at left).*   *   *   *   *

DID News Alert May 1, 2012. Inuit land claim gets first $2.2 million royalty payment

Well, in Montreal April 25, 2012 for the International Polar Year Conference, I witness this protest by Montreal students against tuition fees hikes, 4:23.   

Baffinland Iron Mine Corp (BIM) revision of 2012 field work plan and withdrawal of new Type B water license application. Download the original March 30, 2012 letter as PDF.

By Philip BurgessInternational Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Kautokeino, Norwayphilip.burgess@reindeercentre.org

By Philip Burgess, International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Kautokeino, Norway.philip.burgess@reindeercentre.org

Baffinland slashes scope of Nunavut's Mary River Project, Company postpones railway, Steensby Inlet port, Foxe Basin shippingNUNATSIAQ NEWS Jan 10/13

Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on the Map, 2009. Click on more info to get the English transcription.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ The day Natalino caught a bear at Igloolik point, 9:13 Inuktitut, Thursday morning, December 15, 2011, shot with an iPod by Zacharias Kunuk, editor Carol Kunnuk.This video has been "age-restricted" on YouTube. But is available here for all to see! 

Circumpolar Inuit to Global Leaders in Durban: Don’t Abandon Kyoto 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atuat Akkirtiq shares her views on mining in this interview recorded for the program Show Me on the Map.   "If the people consult us, they should be true to their word."

Panel Discussion from the Indigenous Film Conference October 27-29, 2011 webcast LIVE on IsumaTV from Kauokeino, Norway. NOTE: Action in this video STARTS at 2:20 minutes into the clip.Hosted by the International Sami Film Centre. 

Sheila
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Digital Indigenous Democracy and International Sami Film Centre collaborated on IsumaTV's live webcast of the Indigenous Film Conference from Kautokeino, Norway, October 26-30, 2011. Live webcasts now are archived at:http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en/international-sami-film-centre

Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream approved a $1 million investment in IsumaTV's newest initiative, Digital Indigenous Democracy, for 2011-12. For more information, see attached files.

International Sami Film Center announces a brand new program for projects, Please spread this information, through your website and network. We hope that your collagues will apply.For more info, http://indigenousfilmcircle.comhttp://indigenousfilmcircle.com/en-espanol/ contact: Åsa Simma simma@isf.as

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is an international competition for youth-led projects that encourage the active participation of young people under 30 years of age in the emerging information society.

The First Mile Connectivity Consortium (FMCC) is a national consortium emerging as an outcome of the collaborative process leading to the First Mile report (Putting the Last-mile First). Although founded by and originally focused on First Mile solutions for First Nations communities in remote and rural Canada, the FMCC welcomes members from anywhere who share its goals and principles. FMCC’s goal is to provide a forum for broadband development organizations to learn from each other, and share practices and results with everyone interested, including those who are involved in the process of crafting broadband policy decisions. The FMCC will meet regularly, disseminate information, nurture community-driven projects, and encourage adoption of its principles by communities, information sector players, and government.Download the complete First Mile Report by clicking on Attached Files. See page 53 for article on NITV on IsumaTV.For more information, see Meeting Place: The First Mile.  

Madeline Ivalu speaks about mining in an interview filmed for the program Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ 

Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ  "...we have to fight so hard for our rights when often things are already decided for us." Arnait Video, Show Me on the Map, 2009. Click on more for the transcription.

In August, the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY) overruled its previous refusal and now approved the original funding proposal for NITV on IsumaTV 3.0, NITV's 2011-12 proposal to expand the network of IsumaTV High-speed MediaPlayers to a total of 8 Baffin Island communities: Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit, started in 2010-11, and add

Before Tomorrow, co-directed by Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, won the Golden Drum award at the 2011 Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival in Kathmandu. Before Tomorrow is the third Inuit feature film in The Fast Runner Trilogy produced by Igloolik Isuma Productions. See Nepal's Indigenous Film Archive on Isuma TV; see Before Tomorrow on VOD. 

Download in best-quality a sample selection of screens showing how Digital Indigenous Democracy will appear on IsumaTV, as a network of its first 14 communities, or 'hubs.'

Pilot demo installation of IsumaTV Hi-speed MediaPlayers in Igloolik 2009-10.

Installing IsumaTV Hi-speed into Channel 51 Igloolik, a local cable TV community channel operating 24/7 to home TVs.

Using Skype and social media to bring filmmakers and audiences together Live online.

November 19th, 2010. Iqaluit, Nunavut.CBC North radio interview with Zach and Paul in which they talk about the IsumaTV MediaPlayers and its uses in helping to offer high-speed internet in low-bandwidth communities.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ an excerpt from Nunaqaqaviviniqput: Our Traditional Homeland, 3:56 Inuktitut by Zacharias Kunuk, 2009.

Boost slow internet to high-speed in Inuit and Aboriginal communities: contact info@isuma.tv Pilot 2010-11: Increasing Inuktitut language content across Nunavut communities   7 Communities Connected to Hi-speed Inuit Website All-Inuktitut TV Channel Broadcast to Home Television Inuktitut Educational Content Direct to Students and Teachers Inuit and Aboriginal communities worldwide face loss of language and social breakdown from 21st century Globalization and Climate Change. Foreign language media overload is a major cause of language loss, especially for youth. Communities can reverse this trend by vastly increasing local language media content. Low-cost video and internet tools revitalize language, protect cultural identity, improve education and create jobs for the future using new digital media technology. IsumaTV [www.isuma.tv] is an interactive social networking website of Inuit and Aboriginal films launched in January 2008. Hundreds of hours of Inuktitut-language content and over a thousand films in 28 languages now can be seen by anyone anywhere with a good internet connection and a computer, laptop or iPod. Unfortunately, most Inuit communities don‘t have sufficient bandwidth to download IsumaTV’s video content. With 7.5 million hits worldwide in its first fifteen months, IsumaTV films viewed hi-speed in Toronto, Paris, Helsinki and Beijing barely can be seen in Nunavut schools and homes where they are needed most. Read full proposal and schematic Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV Igloolik Isuma is perhaps the most well-known of indigenous media groups in the world, notably through the global success of their prize winning film Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2000), the first Inuit feature film, created through their distinctive community based production process. Their most recent film (see clip), Before Tomorrow (2008, Arnait women’s collective), is gathering prizes on its festival run. The group formed in 1990, turning televisual technologies into vehicles for cultural expression of Inuit lives and histories, a counterpoint to the introduction of mainstream satellite-based television into the Canadian Arctic. Headed by director Zacharias Kunuk, Isuma engages Igloolik community members while filmmaker and Isuma partner Norman Cohn leads a support team in Montreal. Frustrated by the difficulty of showing work to other Inuit communities, in 2008, they launched a groundbreaking alternative for indigenous distribution, Isuma TV, a free internet video portal for global indigenous media, available to local audiences and worldwide viewers. On May 29, 2009, Isuma will launch NITV on Isuma TV, a digital distribution project, bringing a hi-speed version of IsumaTV into remote Nunavut communities where the bandwidth is inadequate to even view YouTube. NITV allows films to be re-broadcast through local cable or low-power channels, or downloaded to digital projectors. . . Read full article by in media res IFN 2.0 brings HIGH-SPEED videos to Low-speed communities Indigenous Film Network on IsumaTV distributes Inuit, Aboriginal, First Nations, Metis and other Native films by internet to digital projectors in remote communities. IsumaTV local servers bring HI-speed films to LO-speed audiences. Read more

Three partners of Igloolik Isuma Productions interview themselves about the meaning of their work together. Shot sometime in the early 1990's, date unknown.Why We Do This? Zach Kunuk, Qulitalik, Norman Cohn, 42:09, Inuktitut and English. Early 1990s.