So give back #USA to #Paleo-indians give back #Australia to #Aboriginal and #Canada to #Inuit & #Metis

The social fabric of #inuit society changed forever in the twentieth century, though the people have avoided the reservation system.

“The #game was once used by #hunters to indicate a successful hunt & demands extraordinary #strength, balance & control. In her portrait, McIntyre captures the Nunamiut #athlete Sean Uquqtuq in action with monochrome, hand-processed #film.”: buff.ly/THoxIQd

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The spring whaling festival, or nalukataq, was held after the #inuit whale hunt as a thanksgiving for success and to ask for continued good fortune with next year's hunt and to appease the spirit of the whales that were killed

The U.S. government intervened, ostensibly, to ameliorate the situation with improved education. However, the motivations behind this strategy by the U.S. government are the subject of much debate by many Natives and scholars of #inuit culture and history.

The U.S. Bureau of Education, the office given responsibility for the #inuit at the time, imported reindeer from Siberia.

A number of actions were undertaken in attempts to improve the conditions of the #inuit at the end of the nineteen century and the early years of the twentieth century.

Check out the new #IndigenousMusicCountdown now live on #Spotify! Which song from this week is making it onto your playlist? 🎧 #IMC #IndigenousMusic #Indigenous #FirstNations #Inuit #Metis #SpotifyCanada LISTEN: open.spotify.com/playlist/7pM...

The Vikings under Eric the Red encountered #inuit in Greenland in 984. Almost six hundred years later, the British explorer Martin Frobisher made contact with the Central #inuit of northern Canada

#QPArchive Early 20th C. Postcard of #Inuit couple [presumably a summer camp?]

The U.S. Bureau of Education, the office given responsibility for the #inuit at the time, imported reindeer from Siberia.

To YANKS it’s ⬆️ a “game”
To the Inuit of Canada (& Greenland) it’s home
One has only to look at how the U$A treats its >10 million American ‘Indians’ to understand how people play no part in their planning 🔚 #AIAN #cdnPoli #Indigenous #Inuit #ArcticSovereignty

Education for the #inuit is still problematic. Each village has its own school, funded by the state with extra funds from the federal government. Yet the dropout rate is still high among their youth

The first white explorers to reach Arctic Alaska were the #Englishmen Sir John Franklin and Captain F. W. Beechey. Both noted the extensive trade carried on between #inuit and #Indian groups.

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My poem "In Slipstream" has been reprinted by Interstellar Flight in their collection Infinite Branches: Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation. https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/in-slipstream-0dc0c7528495 #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Inuit #CanLit

In 1741, the #Russian explorer, Vitus Bering, met the #inuit of Alaska. It is estimated that there were about 40,000 #inuit living in Alaska at the time, with half of them living in the north, both in the interior and in the far northwest

Today is National Truth & Reconciliation Day.

Today, we listen. We reflect. We remember. And we commit to doing better.

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