Claverhouse
3 Sep 2006, 10:55 PM
Johnny Inukpuk, carver.
Natar Ungalaaq, sculptor
Zacharias Kunuk, film-maker
Adla Korgak, Owl sculptor
Charlie Panigoniak, accordian player
Joseph Idlout, hunter
Sanikiluaq, hunter
John Amagoalik, He helped to create the new Inuit territory , called Nunavut
Kiawak Ashoona, He is an artist who is famous for his carvings.
Georges Berthe, He is a young Inuit responsible for environmental and wildlife affairs in Nunavut.
Tagak Curly, He is responsible for building houses in Nunavut.
Judge James Igloliorte, He is the only Inuit judge in Labrador.
Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk, She wants to preserve the Inuit Language.
Charlie Watt, He is the Inuit senator for Quebec.
Elisapie Isaac, Musician and filmaker, born in Salluit.
Michael Kusugak, Storyteller and author of many children books.
Pitseolak Ashoona, In her adult age, she created more than 7000 original pieces of art.
Susan Aglukar, Famous singer and songwriter of the Arctic.
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They also have powerful role-models for strong women:
Once, on south Baffin Island, I saw a myth come alive. Some young children were playing near a tidal ice barrier with many dangerous hidden cracks. Their grandmother crept with great care down among the ice hummocks and from a hidden position called out, "Oohhwee, Oohhweee!" The children ran back onto the land and said the sea goddess Taluliyuk had frightened them. Later, the grandmother said, "I told them about the woman who lives under the sea. Now she will keep them away from the dangerous places." The grandmother was referring to the powerful sea goddess in this central Arctic song:
That woman down there beneath the sea,
She wants to hide the seals from us.
These hunters in the dance house,
They cannot mend matters.
They cannot mend matters.
Into the spirit world
Will go I,
Where no humans dwell.
Set matters right will I.
Set matters right will I.
The legend of the sea goddess, though known in various regions by different names, is one of the most widespread. One version is that some time ago, during a violent blizzard, a handsome young stranger entered a family IGLOO. He was wearing a necklace with 2 large canine teeth. He was welcomed into the bed and slept with the entire family. When they awoke next morning, the young man was gone. The father, seeing only animal tracks outside, said, "We were deceived. That must have been my lead dog disguised as a man." When his daughter became pregnant, the father was ashamed of what she might produce. He made his daughter lie on the back of his kayak while he paddled her out to a small island where he abandoned her. His lead dog secretly swam to the girl, leaving her tender pieces of meat. Thus she remained alive and gave birth to 6 young. Three of them were Inuit children, but the other 3 had bigger ears and snoutlike noses. The young mother did not know how to build a kayak. Instead, she sewed some sealskins into one large slipper, and placing the 3 strange children inside, she pushed them off toward the south, calling out, 'Sarutiktapsinik sanavagumarkpusi' (You shall be good at making weapons). Some Inuit say that all white men and Indians are descended from those 3 dog children and only through them are they related to Inuit.
http://tinyurl.com/mmv88
And have well-known environmentalists as well.
As the famous (http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/showthread.php?t=106735&referrerid=) inuit war chief antartuk once said " muk tuk languark mak bak iqalnuk inuksukfak mebak shuk"
Translated " fuck you "
Claverhouse :ph34r:
Natar Ungalaaq, sculptor
Zacharias Kunuk, film-maker
Adla Korgak, Owl sculptor
Charlie Panigoniak, accordian player
Joseph Idlout, hunter
Sanikiluaq, hunter
John Amagoalik, He helped to create the new Inuit territory , called Nunavut
Kiawak Ashoona, He is an artist who is famous for his carvings.
Georges Berthe, He is a young Inuit responsible for environmental and wildlife affairs in Nunavut.
Tagak Curly, He is responsible for building houses in Nunavut.
Judge James Igloliorte, He is the only Inuit judge in Labrador.
Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk, She wants to preserve the Inuit Language.
Charlie Watt, He is the Inuit senator for Quebec.
Elisapie Isaac, Musician and filmaker, born in Salluit.
Michael Kusugak, Storyteller and author of many children books.
Pitseolak Ashoona, In her adult age, she created more than 7000 original pieces of art.
Susan Aglukar, Famous singer and songwriter of the Arctic.
***
They also have powerful role-models for strong women:
Once, on south Baffin Island, I saw a myth come alive. Some young children were playing near a tidal ice barrier with many dangerous hidden cracks. Their grandmother crept with great care down among the ice hummocks and from a hidden position called out, "Oohhwee, Oohhweee!" The children ran back onto the land and said the sea goddess Taluliyuk had frightened them. Later, the grandmother said, "I told them about the woman who lives under the sea. Now she will keep them away from the dangerous places." The grandmother was referring to the powerful sea goddess in this central Arctic song:
That woman down there beneath the sea,
She wants to hide the seals from us.
These hunters in the dance house,
They cannot mend matters.
They cannot mend matters.
Into the spirit world
Will go I,
Where no humans dwell.
Set matters right will I.
Set matters right will I.
The legend of the sea goddess, though known in various regions by different names, is one of the most widespread. One version is that some time ago, during a violent blizzard, a handsome young stranger entered a family IGLOO. He was wearing a necklace with 2 large canine teeth. He was welcomed into the bed and slept with the entire family. When they awoke next morning, the young man was gone. The father, seeing only animal tracks outside, said, "We were deceived. That must have been my lead dog disguised as a man." When his daughter became pregnant, the father was ashamed of what she might produce. He made his daughter lie on the back of his kayak while he paddled her out to a small island where he abandoned her. His lead dog secretly swam to the girl, leaving her tender pieces of meat. Thus she remained alive and gave birth to 6 young. Three of them were Inuit children, but the other 3 had bigger ears and snoutlike noses. The young mother did not know how to build a kayak. Instead, she sewed some sealskins into one large slipper, and placing the 3 strange children inside, she pushed them off toward the south, calling out, 'Sarutiktapsinik sanavagumarkpusi' (You shall be good at making weapons). Some Inuit say that all white men and Indians are descended from those 3 dog children and only through them are they related to Inuit.
http://tinyurl.com/mmv88
And have well-known environmentalists as well.
As the famous (http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/showthread.php?t=106735&referrerid=) inuit war chief antartuk once said " muk tuk languark mak bak iqalnuk inuksukfak mebak shuk"
Translated " fuck you "
Claverhouse :ph34r: