#Inuit

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The family of an Inuk man who went missing in Ottawa but was found dead last week in Gatineau, Que. is criticizing the Ottawa Police Service for what they say were failures in searching for him.

Tommy Agnetsiak, 30, originally from Pond Inlet, was reported missing in Ottawa in February, his father Robert Agnetsiak told Nunatsiaq News.

On April 6 at around 11 a.m., police in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from the nation’s capital, received a call from someone who reported seeing a body on the Quebec side of the river, the department’s spokesperson Officer Patrick Kenney said in an email. [...]

“He was missing for a long time and nobody ever saw him ever since. Nobody took it seriously,” Robert Agnetsiak said.

Tragedy has hit the family hard in the last few years. Earlier this year, his daughter overdosed while lying on a couch in an Ottawa apartment and another daughter took her own life a couple of years ago. Tommy was Robert Agnetsiak’s last living child.

Robert said he wants what happened to Tommy to be a warning. Indigenous people are being killed, overdosing, and there needs to be a change. [...]

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[thoughtportal]

Indigenous Horror Films

[pwlanier]

UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST

LOUNGING SEAL

antler, 1.25 x 3.5 x 1.25 in (3.2 x 8.9 x 3.2 cm)

unsigned.

First Arts

[doesephs]

korra did things to 14 year old me

[nobrashfestivity]

Robert E. Peary

AN INUIT MAN WARMS HIS WIFE'S FEET, 1890.

[soncee]

Another Katara fanart !!!

My pokie bear.

[notdayle]

AU in the world of avatar no one speak English. As a prince zuko would know every language OR he would practice.

I would also like to think in this AU aang would also need to learn every language as well to learning the all four elements 

[longing-for-rain]

Have I posted Gran Gran? Gran Gran deserves more love 💙❄️

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Inuit button with seal image, 1880s-90s, Yukon.

[cyren-myadd]

Lo'ak, Kiri, and Spider visit their new friend, Kanalaak, in the Arctic tribe... and they get a little culture shock!

[pinkplantz]

Inuit Korra is all I need 🌊

[weepingwidar]

Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit, Nunavut Territory, Canada, 1927-2013) - Six-Part Harmony (2012)

[pwlanier]

VERONICA KADJUAK MANILAK (1935-) KANGIQLINIQ (RANKIN INLET)

UNTITLED WALLHANGING (SEDNA, WHALES, AND LUMAQ), 1980S

stroud, felt, thread, and floss, 40 x 30.75 in (101.6 x 78.1 cm)

signed "ᕕᒍᓂᒃ / ᒪᓂᓚ."

First Arts

[vaguegrant]

Inuktitut by Elisapie

I haven't been this excited to discover an album in months.

Inuktitut is Elisapie's fourth album, and it's nominally a cover album. Except for two differences: It's sung entirely in the Inuit language, and these 'covers' are absolutely brilliant rearrangements. Familiar songs are completely transformed, both through genius reorchestration and subtle changes that make each song sound like it was originally written in Inuit—as if no other language could really be suited for those songs.

Elisapie's vocals deserve plenty of credit too, of course. Her voice is rich and enveloping, but with a certain chilly depth that lends even the lightest of pop songs gravitas.

My favorite song is almost certainly Elisapie's entirely brass take on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", but every single track stands out and stands alone. Metallica, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Cyndi Lauper, Led Zeppelin, Blondie—Inuktitut includes and perfectly reappropriates a broad swath of popular music, fearlessly and effortlessly.

I do not know how to recommend this album to you strongly enough. It is a must-listen.

[linguisticdiscovery]

Inuit schoolchildren invented a new number system, and now it's on the web

A group of Inuit middle schoolers invented a new number system that better fits their language (Iñupiaq), and now Unicode has adopted these symbols, meaning they can be used for typing, in apps, and on the web.

[jstor]

Oh wow, these Inuit prints!!! Kenojuak Ashevak, Observant Owl; Kenojuak Ashevak, Throat Singers Gathering; Ningiukulu Teevee, Seasonal Migration; Sheelaky (artist) and Iyola Kingwatsiak (printer), Sea Spirit.

More than 100 of these beauties are available in St. Lawrence University's Canadian Inuit Prints, Drawings, and Carvings collection on JSTOR, which is free and open to all!