A NEW MAGAZINE FOR THE INUIT KIDS (Categorie: Culture - Arts) Young readers in northern Nunavut are testing out a new children's magazine ? published in both Inuktitut and English ? that organizers hope will get more elementary school students hooked on reading.
Source: CBC, July 5th 2007 View source 
CARVED HARES AND DANCING BEARS (Categorie: Culture - Arts) A correspondent from The Economist explores the Arctic art-world which has been finding a market in Canada gradually since the late 1940s.
Source: Economist.com, June 22nd 2007 View source
QITSUALIK: SHAPESHIFTER: AN INUIT TALE (Categorie: Culture) Long have humans recognized the powers that animals possess, which we do not. The animals that a culture recognizes - even in the most industrialized society - form the basis of its archetypes, one of the pillars upon which that society's cosmology rests.
Source: Indian Country, July 05, 2007 View source
ARCTIC ADVENTURES: TALES FROM THE LIVES OF INUIT ARTISTS (Categorie: Culture) The menace of climate change lends an elegiac power to the reading of Arctic Adventures by Montreal author Raquel Rivera. Through the lives of four Inuit artists Rivera gives us a taste of a vanished way of life, a sense of the unimaginable hardships that shaped these artists? characters, and a glimpse of the work that grew so organically from their experiences on the land.
Source: Quill & Quire, May 2007 View source
LIFE?S LESSONS (Categorie: Culture - Education) Jukeepa Hainnu becomes the first Inuit woman on Baffin Island to get her masters of education. While she urges to further education after highschool, she doesn?t want youth in her Baffin Island community to lose touch with their past in preparing for their future.
Source: The Guardian (Charlottetown) 12/05/07 View source
MANY ABORIGINAL TONGUES ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION (Categorie: Culture - Education) A report released by Statistics Canada, using 2001 census data, shows aboriginal languages are disappearing but the downward trend is being pushed back by the younger generation learning their grandparents' mother tongues as second languages.
Source: The Hamilton Spectator, May 17, 2007 View source
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