Arctic Languages

Inuit Circumpolar Conference Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

Per Langgard is Senior Advisor at Oqasileriffik – the Greenland Language Secretariat. His area of expertise includes language technology. Year of Production: 2009 Country: Canada

Arctic Indigenous Language Seminar. The Arctic Portal. Year of Production: 2009 Country: Canada

The Arctic Indigenous Language Seminar, October 2008. Linda Lee. Year of Production: 2009 Country: Canada

Mary Simon is President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada’s national Inuit organization. She was Canada’s Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, and Ambassador to Denmark. As an Inuit leader she has been president of Makivik Corporation in Nunavik, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC).

Arctic Indigenous Language Symposium. More governement responses. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

An interview between Louis Tapardjuk and Peter Irniq. Louis Tapardjuk was born on January 30, 1953 in an igloo out on the sea ice near Igloolik, Nunavut where he later became Councillor and Mayor. Louis was elected to the 2nd Nunavut Legislature in the 2004 Territorial Elections.

This is an opportunity for governments who are part of the Arctic Council to respond to the issues addressed at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21st, 2008. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada Region: Arctic

Louis Tapardjuk speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21st, 2008. Louis Tapardjuk was born on January 30, 1953 in an igloo out on the sea ice near Igloolik, Nunavut where he later became Councillor and Mayor. Louis was elected to the 2nd Nunavut Legislature in the 2004 Territorial Elections.

Svetlana Semenova speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21st, 2008. Svetlana Semenova has a PhD in Pedagogy with a major in indigenous education. Currently, she is head of the Federal State Institute of Nationalities’ Schools of the Republic of Saha-Yakutiya. Year of Production: 2008

Lars Anders Baer speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 21tst 2008. Lars Anders Baer is a reindeer herder and President of the Swedish Saami Parliament. He is also the Arctic representative at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Victoria Spadina, specialist in ethnobiology, speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

Gunn-Britt Retter speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Gunn-Britt Retter is a Saami from the Varanger area on the coast of Northeast Norway. She is a teacher by training and holds a Master of Arts in Bilingual Studies from the University of Wales.

Hishinlai’ Kathy R Sikorski speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Hishinlai’ Kathy R Sikorski studied linguistics and education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), receiving a Masters in Education in Curriculum and Instruction earlier this year. She is currently pursuing a PhD.

An open discussion on the topic of "Indigenous Languages: an Important Key to Protecting the Arctic Environment" following the presenters on the topic at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

President's Speech Remarks to 2008 Arctic Indigenous Language Symposium Submitted by itkadmin on Sunday, October 19, 2008 in * Education * Language ‘Good Intentions Are Not Enough’ Tromso, Norway Mary Simon, National President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami October 20, 2008 goddag (hello in Norwegian), ullakuut, Thank you, for that warm welcome and for inviting me to Tromso to speak on a subject of enormous importance to me – the future of our Inuit Language in Canada - Inuktitut.

An open discussion about technology and media as tools to promote and strengthen indigenous languages following the presenters on the topic at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20, 2008. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

Inger Marie Eira, reindeer herder, speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

Hugues Sicard speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symopsium in Tromso Norway on October 20th, 2008. Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada

This is an open discussion following the speakers of the second session of the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium on the topic of Protecting Culture and Transferring Knowledge followed by a talk by Carl Christian Olsen. Carl Christian Olsen, born in Sisimiut, Greenland, Puju, completed his doctoral studies in linguistics in 1975 and has devoted much of his life to language issues.

Russian journalist, Tatiana Archirgina speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium on October 20th, 2008 in Tromso Norway. Year of Production: 2009 Country: Canada Region: Arctic

Ronald Brower speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso Norway on October 20th, 2008. Ronald H Brower Sr. was born in 1949 in Barrow and was raised in a traditional sod home at Eviksook about 30 miles south of Barrow until the Family moved to Barrow.

Jose Amaujaq Kusugak speaks at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Jose Amaujaq Kusugak was born in Naujaat, Nunavut in 1950. He is the second born of 8 brothers and 4 sisters. His passion for language started when he was taking Latin in high school and he realized that unlike Latin, Inuktitut was a working and living language.

Footage from the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway October 19-21st, 2008. Inuit Circumpolar Conference. Filmmaker: isuma.tv Filmmaker Contact:   isuma@isuma.ca Year of Production: 2008 Country: Canada Region: Arctic

Zacharias Kunuk and Peter Irniq speak about Technology and Media as Tools for Change at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway on October 20th, 2008. Zacharias was born in 1957in Kapuivik near Igloolik. He is president and co-founder in 1990 of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit-owned independent production company.