Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.
Agriculture in the North: A New Strategy of Indigenous Land Dispossession? Read More »
Shifting dynamics between newcomers, white settlers, and Inuit are contributing to complicated social relations in Iqaluit. How can complicated layers of colonization be worked through to enact a new solidarity?
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The long-discussed Nunavut devolution was suddenly finalized. What can this devolution mean for Nunaviummiut?
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On the surface, Inuit in Nunavut are portrayed to have successfully achieved self-determination. However, Kunuk Inutiq argues the assumption that the public government is a form of self-determination is a facade. In this brief scrutinizes this facade and who it benefits in Nunavut.
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CLICK HERE TO READ ENGLISH VERSION. ᓄᕕᑉᐱᕆ 16, 2021-ᖑᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᑐᙵᕕᒃ ᑎᒥᖓ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᓕᒫᕐᓯᐅᑎᒥᓂᒃ ᑲᑎᒪᑎᓪᓗᒋᑦ, ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᔪᑦ ᓈᖕᒪᒃᓴᓚᐅᕐᒪᑕ ᐱᖁᔨᕗᖔᕈᑎᒥᒃ ᑲᒪᒋᐊᖁᔨᔪᓂᒃ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ−ᒐᕙᒪᖃᓐᓂᕐᒥᒃ. ᐃᓚᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᑐᓴᖅᑕᐅᒋᐊᙵᑐᒃᓴᐅᔫᒐᓗᐊᖅ, ᐃᓱᒪᒋᓗᒍ ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒍᑕᐅᒍᑎᒋᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᔭᖓ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐊᓘᓂᖓ ᐅᐱᒋᔭᐅᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᒻᒪᑦ ᐱᙳᖅᑎᑕᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ 1999-ᒥ. ᐱᙳᕐᑎᑕᐅᔪᕗᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐊᑎᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐊᖏᕈᑎᖓ 1993-ᒥ. ᑕᐃᒪᓐᓇ ᑲᒪᒋᔭᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᓯᒪᓂᖓᓄᑦ, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᖏᔪᕗᑦ ᓵᖅᑭᑕᐅᒍᑎᖓᓂᒃ ᑭᓇᒃᑯᓕᒫᓄᑦ ᑐᕌᖓᓗᓂ ᒐᕙᒪᖃᕈᒪᓪᓗᑎᒃ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᑦᑎᐊᕐᑐᑎᒃ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓱᓕ ᒫᓐᓇᒧᑦ ᑎᑭᓪᓗᒍ ᐃᓄᒋᐊᓐᓂᕐᐹᖑᒻᒪᑕ. ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓂᕆᐅᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᒻᒪᑕ ᓱᓕᔪᕐᓴᔪᓪᓚᒥᓪᓗ ᓇᖕᒥᖅ ᒐᕙᒪᖃᓐᓂᐊᕋᒥᒃ. ᑭᓯᐊᓂᑦᑕᐅᖅ, ᑖᓐᓇ
What issues are present in policy that impede language revitalization efforts? Here, 2018-2019 Glassco Fellow Killulark Arngna’naaq discusses her paper, Deregulate and Empower Language Teachers, which examines policy options for supporting Indigenous language revitalization in the North, and addresses issues teachers and learners are facing.