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The Fast Runner Trilogy

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner

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The Fast Runner Trilogy

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

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The Fast Runner Trilogy

Before Tomorrow

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Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum

Nunavut (Our Land) | Artcirq | Arnait

Curriculum Grades 4 to 6

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  • Aua character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Inuit Culture Education

    Before I was born, my mother was cursed by an evil shaman who whispered in her ear, 'All your children will be born dead!' and it was so. But when my mother broke taboo, I began struggling and kicking to get out through her navel, a sensitiveness that was a sign I should live to become a great shaman.… Read more

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Therkel Mathiassen character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Inuit Culture Education

    My name is Therkel Mathiassen and I was born on September 5, 1892. I became an archaeologist and traveled with my friend and fellow explorer, Knud Rasmussen through the Arctic. In 1922, Knud and I were members of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition.… Read more

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Knud Rasmussen

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Inuit Culture Education

    My name is Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, and I was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland on June 7, 1879. I am of both Inuit and Danish descent and speak fluent Inuktitut. I am an experienced arctic traveler whose life's work has been dedicated to the study of the Eskimos.… Read more

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Introduction

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Inuit Culture Education

    After completing “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner,” set in the mythological past in a community whose balance of life had not changed for 4,000 years, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn chose to depict a series of events that took place in 1922, when Shamanism was replaced by Christianity – and the balance of life was changed forever.  Kunuk was inspired to make the film for “a first audience that… Read more

    uploaded date: 26-11-2009

  • Winter

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Before Tomorrow

    Photos archives of the making of Before Tomorrow during the winter season at Puvirnituq, POV, Nunavik, Northern Quebec where the film was shot.

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    uploaded date: 24-11-2009

  • Summer

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Before Tomorrow

    Photos archives of the making of Before Tomorrow during the summer season at Puvirnituq, POV, Nunavik, Northern Quebec where the film was shot.

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    uploaded date: 24-11-2009