Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
-- When Edna MacLean, a renowned Inuk linguist, took the podium at a language conference in Iqaluit this year, over 200 Inuit from Canada, the United States and Greenland were listening in the ...
Kirt Ejesiak, left, and Livete Ataguyuk are the duo behind AingAI Indigenous Language Labs in Iqaluit. The company has been collecting Inuktitut text and audio which they'll use to feed their ...
The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) has taken to social media to encourage the increased usage of Inuktitut, the Inuit language. Based in the Qikiqtani (Baffin) Region of Nunavut, Canada’s youngest ...
In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...
Kelly Fraser, a Canadian pop artist who gained attention for an Inuit-language cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” part of her advocacy efforts for her indigenous culture, died Dec. 24 in Winnipeg. She was ...
"Atanarjuat the Fast Runner" is the first-ever screenplay written in the Inuit language, Inuktitut -- and the first time's a charm. Pic captures an epic story rife with rivalries, evil spirits, sex, ...
Inuk musician Riit grew up in Panniqtuuq — also known as Pangnirtung, or as she refers to it, simply “Pang”— in Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost territory. Panniqtuuq means “The Place of the Bull ...
Ms. Fraser gained attention for her cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” part of her effort to bring awareness to her indigenous culture. By The Associated Press Kelly Fraser, a Canadian singer who gained ...