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Volume 23, No. 4 July/August 2011
21 Restoring Cultural Treasures NFB Project Resurrects Inuit Film Archive
“Unikkausivut” means “sharing our stories” in Inuktitut, the name of a National Film Board initiative that is bringing Inuit stories to all Canadians. Documentaries, animations, and historical dramas of life in the North, from 1942 to today, will soon find new life on DVDs and the World Wide Web. — Tim Lougheed
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Exploring the Weather at Clyde River
Inuit have noted many changes in weather over the past fewdecades. Among other things, they report that the weather is harder to predict than it used to be. This complaint echoes observations I’ve heard from Alaska (where I live), Canada’s western Arctic, Nunavut, Greenland, Scandinavia, and Russia. Something is undoubtedly going on. — Henry Huntington
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8 Arctic Bay Photography Workshop
15 About the North
31 Exotica Westfest’s Qaggiq Showcase Photography by Jen File
41 Arts, Culture & Education Northwords Writers Festival
47 Summer Life Sailing on Great Slave Lake
by J.S. Fullerton 53 Northern Bookshelf
55 Field Notes The Return of the Swans
by Claus Vogel
58 Inuit Forum Changing the “Back to School” Experience by Mary Simon
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