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Francois Paulette's Keynote at Health Canada's Pan-Arctic Results Workshop
Francois Paulette delivers his keynote at Health Canada's - First Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Pan-Arctic Results Workshop, held in Ottawa February 7-10, 2011.
Francois - A Dene Suline Elder and Indigenous rights and environmental activist - takes us on a journey of knowledge, starting 1491 the year before the arrival of Europeans, all the way to the present issues related to Alberta's Tar Sands and associated climate change.
He reminds us that life and water are sacred and that we must have respect for them if we are to avoid the "strange happenings" we are seeing around us.
Francois' efforts to protect his home lands and community were recently featured in the CBC Nature of Things documentary "The Tipping Point".
More information about the conference, held in conjunction with The Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health, can be viewed online at:
http://csch.ca/workshop/
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Francois Paulette's Keynote at Health Canada's Pan-Arctic Results Workshop
Francois Paulette delivers his keynote at Health Canada's - First Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Pan-Arctic Results Workshop, held in Ottawa February 7-10, 2011.
Siila Watt-Cloutier Keynote at Health Canada's Pan-Arctic Results Workshop
Siila Watt-Cloutier delivers her keynote at Health Canada's - First Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Pan-Arctic Results Workshop, held in Ottawa February 7-10, 2011.This speech navigates the global and local level decision-making and impacts of climate change, weaving together human rights, ecological and governance issues, all within Siila's unique indigenous women's perspective.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Therese Mattaq (long)
Therese Mattaq of Pond Inlet speaks about climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Peter Kanayuk
Peter Kanayuk from Pangnirtung speaks about Climate Change
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Livie Kulaclualik (Full Interview)
Livie Kulachualik speaks with Zacharias Kunuk about climate change.
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Mosesie Qappik
Mosesie Qappik from Pangnirtung speaks about climate change.
Abraham Ulayuruluk on Climate Change
Abraham Ulayuruluk speaks about climate change.When it's a very calm morning, in the winter time, you would breath out towards the wind. Your breath, you could hear it in the cold. That's how it was.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Therese Mattaq's Starvation Story
Therese Mattaq shares a story about starvation
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change
Paumi Qumanapik from Pond Inlet speaks about climate change
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Abraham Ulayuruluk
Abraham Ulayuruluk from Igloolik speaks with Zacharias Kunuk about climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Lukie Airut (full invu)
Lukie Airut from Igloolik speaks about the impacts of climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Thomasie Kublu
Thomasie Kublu from Igloolik speaks with Zacharias Kunuk about climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Papaq Malliki
Papaq Malliki from Igloolik speaks about the impacts of climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Paul Quassa
Paul Quassa from Igloolik speaks with Zacharias Kunuk about climate change.
Thomasie Kublu on Things Changing
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Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Peter Kanayuk on Animal Health
Peter Kanayuk from Pangnirtung speaks about animal health.Maybe in those days, we had a better sense of smell and taste, and we remember that. Back then, caribou used to taste more flavourful. All the animals we catch, when they're fresh, they taste better. Today, that taste isn't the same. Maybe because of my old age, but it does seem different now.
Livie Kullualik on Animal Health
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Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Lasalusie Ishulutaq
Lasalusie Ishulutaq from Pangnirtung shares his views on Climate Change. "The sun is hotter now", he says. "In recent years, it turned really hot. When I took my family out, I had never experienced the heat that way. I've noticed that a lot and it brings me to tears."Full English Transcript:
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Jaipitty Palluq on Polar Bears
Japitty Palluq from Igloolik speaks about polar bears.
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Susan Avingaq
Susan Avingaq from Igloolik speaks about the impacts of climate change.
Jaipitty Palluq on Animal Kindness
English Transcript:All animals, you're not supposed to play, hurt or kill them, even insects. If you even kill black flies or mosquitoes with fire while they're in your tent, they'll return and there will be more of them. I've experienced this.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Lukie Airut
Lukie Airut from Igloolik speaks about climate change.The light is coming up in the winter time, blowing snow and boring. It was colder, not to long ago.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier on The Dangers of Climate Change
English Transcript:Her grandmother had noticed that the stars were not in place, which links with the shifting of the earth that elders we're talking to have noticed
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Livie Kullualik
Livie Kullualik from Pangnirtung shares his environmental observations.Here it used to start melting, in seems, in two layers. Now that doesn't happen anymore. The melting is not happening the way it used to. This is the greatest impact according to my knowledge.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Peter Kanayuk
Peter Kanayuk from Pangnirtung speaks about teachings.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Lasalusie Ishulutaq
Lasalusie Ishulutaq speaks about the past and sings traditional songs.
Therese Mattaq of Pond Inlet on Changing Climate
English Transcript:The ice is not that solid anymore and it's no longer good for spring camping. We can't get to our spring fishing place anymore. The ice wants to breakup sooner.
Samueli Ammaq of Igloolik on Teachings
English Transcript:Teaching how to live well amongst people. If I see any fellow man poor, give them something small, even if it's small. I was told to help others with food. I was told to watch the sky, but I never learned anything. But I tried to use the teaching and predict the weather when I have to go hunting.
Inuit Knowlege & Climate Change: Peter Kanayuk on Childhood and Hunting Bears
Peter Kanayuk from Pangnirtung speaks about his childhood and hunting bears. "The most enjoyable, my favorite hunt, is the polar bear. You have a different feeling when you're after the bear. It's fierce and you're feeling happy. Not every day you catch a bear. Those were my favorite times."English Transcript:
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Susan Avingaq
Susan Avingaq from Igloolik speaks about climate change.Sometimes I don't believe myself. I thought our sky was blue. But today, I notice it's lighter and more pale than it used to be.
Therese Mattaq on Animals
English Transcript:We weren't supposed to make fun of animals because they are our only food. Even insects. We weren't supposed to have make fun of them. I don't know about mosquitoes. There were strict rules regarding animals. If you're not going to kill them for food, don't bother them.There used to be a lot of mosquitoes and it was warm.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Papak Malliki
Papak Malliki of Igloolik speaks about climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Therese Mattaq
Therese Mattaq of Pond Inlet speaks about Inuit teaching: "They wanted me to know the environment. They wanted to me to know the stars. Things that are not made by Inuit but made by things we do not know. God made them from the beginning. That was our teaching." Full English Transcript:
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Abraham Ulayuruluk of Igloolik on The Polar Bear
Abraham Ulayuruluk of Igloolik speaks about changes in polar bear behaviour. "In the past, polar bears weren't around that much. Once in a while, they would come from the floating ice, and we would catch them. Back then, in summer time, when someone got a bear, they were all healthy and fat.
Deborah Qaunaq on Changes
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change - Interview with Deborah Qaunaq.I think sometimes our earth has tilted. When the fall comes and ice should be forming, it doesn't happen right away. In the spring, when it should be melting, it stays cooler. It now seems to stay cooler longer than in the past.
Full Interview with Writer John Ralston Saul on Canada's North and Climate Change
Ian Mauro's interview with John Ralston Saul, internationally acclaimed writer, about aboriginal philosophy and the importance of indigenous knowledge in a changing world. This conversation took place in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in the spring of 2009.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Apea Sowdluapik
Apea Sowdluapik from Pangnirtung speaks about environmental health problems linked to climate change.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Apea Sowdluapik
Apea Sowdluapik from Pangnirtung speaks about the impacts of climate change."These days the wind changes direction quickly. Weather would be good and then bad all of a sudden. That's how it is today.In the past, spring would have good and long weather. It didn't change suddenly. Now the wind changes suddenly.
Alukie Metuq on New Species
English Transcript:We were out boating and egg picking and we saw a strange bird. It had long legs, it was grey, and we thought it came from the south.She saw something round with wings, it was very small, she didn't know what it was. It was the first time she had seen it.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change: Alukie Metuq
Alukie Metuq from Pangnirtung speaks about changes in the weather. "In February, last year, they had bad weather, and the land melted and the temperature was even plus five. Last year, I really noticed, it was different. The ice went early. It was really hot. When the summer came, it was even hotter.
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change
Alukie Metuq from Pangnirtung speaks about climate change.
Wayne Davidson on Atmospheric Refraction
Resolute Bay Meteorological Observer, Wayne Davidson explains how images of the sun appear differently because of atmospheric refraction.
Wayne Davidson on Refraction
Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson shows a simple but effective example of refraction occurring in water.
Wayne Davidson on Dirty Energy
Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson talks about the dangers of dirty energy and the effects on the North.
Wayne Davidson - Testing Ice Thickness and Cloud Patterns
Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson and his team demonstrate how the thinkness of the ice is tested. He also discusses normal cloud formation and weather prediction.
Wayne Davidson and The Weather Balloon
Pangnirtung Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson shows how weather balloons work and discusses the standard weather prediction methods.
Siila Watt-Cloutier's Address at The Lafontaine-Baldwin Symposium, Iqaluit 2009
Siila Watt-Cloutier, Officer of the Order of Canada and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee is an International Inuit leader and activist. In Iqaluit in 2009, she addresses the 9th Annual Lafontaine-Baldwin Symposium on Canada's North, Inuit wisdom, and Inuit resiliency in the face of climate change and a rapidly changing cultural landscape. In English with a preface in Inuktitut.
Full Interview with Public Health Nurse, Marcus Wilcke in Pangnirtung, NU
Marcus Wilcke has been a Public Health Nurse in Pangnirtung, Nunavut for over 20 years. He discusses the various changes in the health of the community over the years and the possible connections to climate change.
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Elisapee Ishulutak
Elisapee Ishulutak, Pangnirtung's oldest resident, discusses climate change. It use to be steaming fog from the shore and the dog teams would be coming. You could hear their breathing. You could hear them coming in the fog. It was cold. That was wonderful.
Elisapee Ishulutak on Traditional Medicine, White Ravens and Animal Health
English Transcript: Back then, nobody hardly got sick because we were the only family out there. Nowadays, everyone is mingling amongst communities, and we get sick. It was not like that before. Sometimes we would get sick and use things from the land to heal us, like mushrooms and their powder and longs from a rabbit we'd use as band-aids, and tissue from ujuk fat.
Elisapee Ishulutak on Polar Bears
English Transcript: We never had bears. Sometimes we would go polar bear hunting way out there and we'd come back with nothing. Not very often someone would get a bear because there was none in our area...They say there are bears around, a lot of them, that's what I hear. There were no bear in this area.
Elisapee Ishulutak on how it used to be
English Transcript: The weather was not like this. It used to be good. Now it's different. We hunted for clothing in that area while the fur was thin. We used to row and portage. That's how it was.
Full Interview with Conservation Biologist Dominique Berteaux, PhD
Dominique Berteaux, PhD, is a Conservation Biologist at the University of Quebec at Rimouski. He discusses at length his studies with fox species, among other things, and the effects of climate change on wildlife in the Canada's North.
Waldemar Lehn, Atmospheric Refraction Scientist on Sunsets
Atmospheric Refraction Scientist, Waldemar Lehn responds to the idea that Inuit are seeing the sun rise and set in a different place than it should be – some 25 degrees off course. He also addresses how and why they are seeing the sun return several days before it should. He attributes it to an optical ducting effect.
James Ford, Climate Change Scientist, discusses food security in relation to climate change
James speaks about his work in Igloolik in terms of the effect of climate change on food security. He says this is mostly in terms of access rather than the health of certain species. Hunters get stuck in communities, unable to get out to hunting grounds. The thickening of the ice is taking much longer and people are relying on store foods more and more.
Climate Change Scientist, James Ford, PhD, on science versus traditional knowledge and the polar bear
James discusses the polarity of the Inuit perspective on polar bears and the scientific one. Perhaps scientists have gotten it wrong as they are not there year round to fully understand it. Regardless of this the scientific community is often taken as gospel.
Climate Change Scientist, James Ford on Inuit Knowledge and The North as "The Miner's Canary"
James introduces himself and discusses how he works with the human dimension of climate change, specializing on the Inuit in the Arctic and adaptation. He talk about the changes that are happening in the arctic in terms of actual biophysical changes. The effects are severe, in the sea ice in particular and its effects on communities and animals alike.
Climate Change Scientist, James Ford on Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate Change Scientist James Ford talks about adaptation to climate change. Inuit are adapting now, though traditional knowledge. There are some things that are making it difficult to adapt such as the cost of fuel, regulations, and hunting quotas. He talks about land skills training programs. For Inuit hunting is a way of life, not a hobby.
George Wenzel, Cultural Ecologist on The Polar Bear, The Seal Campaign and Misrepresentation
Cultural Ecologist George Wenzel, PhD, discusses the misrepresentation of the Inuit in the seal campaign by organizations such as Greenpeace. He says the Inuit were a relatively helpless community in these regards and didn’t fully understand the reasons behind the massive collapse of the European sealskin market.
George Wenzel, Cultural Ecologist, on Inuit Adaptation and Change
Cultural Ecologist, George Wenzel, PhD, talks about the difficulty of the Inuit to adapt in the same ways as they have in the past. He discusses the danger of accidents in open water environments and how risky it is to get around in summer. He talks about how things are adapted and absorbed into Inuit traditional knowledge.
Ron Mongeau, SAO of Pangnirtung Discusses the Bridge Collapse
Senior Administrative Officer of Pangnirtung, Ron Mongeau discusses the effects of Climate Change in the Pangnirtung area, particularly the major impacts of the community's bridge collapsing due to erosion in 2008.
George Wenzel, PhD, Cultural Ecologist on Inuit Hunting Practices
George introduces himself and talk about his area of research. He discusses Inuit hunting as a practice and a way of life. He states that hunting is a full-time job and wage employment conflicts with this in the Inuit mixed economy.
Qapiragajuq: An Update on "Tilting of the Earth"
If you've been following our work, you'll know that elders across Nunavut believe that "the earth has tilted" and this is the cause of climate change.
The "Forbidden Window"
An
important concept we've heard in some of our interviews with elders is about
"the forbidden window". In the past, children were told not to touch
or eat ice off the window of the qammaq. These windows were made of animal
stomach, either bearded seal or walrus. The stomach would be stretched thin and
you could see clear through it when placed properly in a frame.
Inuit: The True Animal Rights Activists
This video blog is for all you animal rights
activists out there. Eat your heart out on this video from Iqaluit elder Rita
Nashuk. Actually, maybe you should just consider eating a piece of heart, maybe
seal?