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Among the many collections
from all across Canada that are part of the Inuit and Aboriginal media archive,
the following organizations are some of the providers of the
irreplaceable digitized content:
- Inuit Broadcasting Corporation curated collection: programming
about Inuit in Inuktitut language. IBC produces shows about Inuit kids,
musicians, politicians, with Inuit humor about Inuit issues. Their programming
has been internationally recognized as one of the most successful communication
models for developing nations. - Inuit Circumpolar Conference, The Ottawa Declaration of 1996
formally established the Arctic Council as a high level intergovernmental forum
to provide a means for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction
among the Arctic States, with the involvement of the Arctic Indigenous
communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular
issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic. - Native Communication Society of the Northwest territories with a curated
selection of radio programming and the complete series of ‘Our Dene Elders’. The Native Communication Society
of the Northwest territories acknowledge how First Peoples of the North have
historically relied on oral traditions to pass on stories, culture and
information. NCS continues to reinforce the oral traditions of the past by
using the technologies of today to bring programming on English, North Slavey
(Sahtu), South Slavey (Deh Cho), Denesuline (Chipewyan), Gwich'in and Tlicho.
‘Our Dene Elders’ is the complete series of different interviews to almost 200
Dene elders in 6 indigenous languages. - Masset Teen Center on Haida Gwaii (Haidawood). Productions of the series Teen
Night made by the Haida youth. - 7th Generation Image Makers. 7th Generation is an
interdisciplinary art program for Aboriginal youth in downtown Toronto. - Eddy Malenfant. A series of the history of Canada from an Innu point of
view. - Festival Présence Autochtone. A Canadian and International
aboriginal festival of visual arts, history, films and videos, workshops and
many other activities celebrated each year to celebrate the diversity of the
American continent. - Qajaaq Ellsworth, young people from Nunavik and Nunavut who affirm their
Inuit identity in an age of information, technology and self-determination. - Iroquois Confederacy. A First Nations groups that of Mohawk, Oneida,
Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. - Ironwood. Films on Native wisdom, first results of the Ironwood Log
Project, an educational initiative dedicated to the wide spreading of Native
teachings. - Artcirq curated collection shows how Canada’s first Inuit youth
circus/filmmaking collective tours around the world and produces films that are
related to their daily reality. - Arnait Video Productions curated selection. Aranit’s
productions are the expression of research into traditional and contemporary
Inuit styles of narration. An underlying context for the stories told in their
video works is the formal innovations associated with the Inuit of Igloolik
appropriating videographic tools. - ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The imagineNATIVE Film + Media
Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by
Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and
new media. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world's Indigenous
nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in
contemporary media. - Alianait Art Festival, an Inuit festival of art, music, film, storytelling,
circus arts, dance and theatre in Iqaluit, Nunavut. - Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit independent production company.
Isuma's mission is to produce independent community-based media – films, TV and
now Internet - to preserve and enhance Inuit culture and language; to create
jobs and economic development in Igloolik and Nunavut; and to tell authentic
Inuit stories to Inuit and non-Inuit audiences worldwide.