Proceedings 14th Inuit Studies Conference 11-15 August 2004 The Arctic Institute of North America University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada Compiled by Robert O. van Everdingen Conference Organizing Committee Karla Jessen Williamson, Chair Dr. Robert G. Williamson Dr. Robert O. van Everdingen AINA Board and Staff University of Calgary Conference & Special Events Sponsors: Founding Organization: Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc. is a non-profit Canadian corporation founded in 1974, whose objective is to promote and disseminate knowledge about Inuit language, culture and society. Apart from various research and publishing projects, it publishes Etudes/Inuit/Studies, an international scholarly journal now in its 28th year, and sees to the organization of the Inuit Studies Conferences, held every two years since 1978. Cover pictures Background: A 1940s settlement of caribou-skin tents on the Barren Grounds. Photo by Canon James Harold Webster. Photographic Archives of the Arctic Institute of North America. Left inset: Sixteen-year-old Jane Kogliak at Itchen Lake, Coppermine region, in 1944. Photo by Canon James Harold Webster. Photographic Archives of the Arctic Institute of North America. Right inset: Kukilugak splitting a salmon for drying at Coppermine. Photo by Canon James Harold Webster. Photographic Archives of the Arctic Institute of North America. © 2005 The Arctic Instutute of North America ISBN 1-894788-02-8 ii CONTENTS Program ......................................................................................................................................... ix Welcome message Karla J. Williamson, Conference Chair .......................................................................................... 1 Papers ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Creating a distributive learning project from a distance: Lessons learned Collene Armstrong ........................................................................................................................... 5 Hans Egede Oqaluppalaarutaa: Hans Egede's Story Anna Berge ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Taarnirmik unnuangujjutiqanngimmat “Darkness is not the cause of the night”: An Inuit perspective from Canadian Eastern Arctic on the night Guy Bordin ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Facilitating community-based research Patricia Cochran .............................................................................................................................. 47 Belugas all the way down Ted Dyck ........................................................................................................................................... 53 Wordless word: Quandaries when conveying content and significance of Inupiaq transformation of Protestant beliefs and practices Kristin Helweg Hanson ................................................................................................................... 65 The immoral ethic of conquest: Inuit and Qallunaat reactions to the High Arctic murder trial of 1923. Kenn Harper ..................................................................................................................................... 77 Multicultural engagement for learning and understanding Carl Hild ........................................................................................................................................... 95 The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS): Communicating research results to Canadian Inuit Lynda Howard and Ross Goodwin ................................................................................................. 109 Interlude at Winter Cove: Mid-19th Century Copper Inuit - European intersocietal interaction, Walker Bay, Victoria Island Donald S. Johnson .......................................................................................................................... 117 Captured Words: Inuit creative voice in English for the twenty-first century Michael P J Kennedy ...................................................................................................................... 137 iii Culturally sensitive counselling with Inuit: An example of practical application of research Marja Korhonen .............................................................................................................................. 153 “Whatever Floats Your Boat": The University of Alaska Museum’s Nunamiut Eskimo Kayak Project Angela Linn, Molly Lee and Roosevelt Paneak ............................................................................. 161 Aajiiqatigiingniq: Lessons learned from Nunavut’s Language Research Project Ian Martin and Shirley Tagalik ...................................................................................................... 167 Global Wellness Initiatives: Blending traditional scientific knowledge with community mentorship Tina Melin, Kathleen Douglass, Cindy Lincoln, Sandra Sumrall-Lloyd and Carol Wean.......... 185 “My way to myself”: Preserving the healing power of voice in a community-based participatory research project on Alaska Native pathways toward sobriety Gerald V. Mohatt and S. Michelle Rasmus .................................................................................... 211 Agentive and patientive verb bases in Iñupiaq Tadataka Nagai ............................................................................................................................... 229 The endurance of Tangirnarmiut Gordon Pullar .................................................................................................................................. 241 Taking graduate courses to the Circumpolar North Carolyn Redl .................................................................................................................................... 261 First Nations and the Canadian Legal System: Conflict management or dispute resolution? Pierre Rousseau ............................................................................................................................... 275 Inuit youth: The future of Inuktitut Shelley Tulloch ................................................................................................................................ 285 Bringing Inuit and Arctic perspectives to the global stage: Lessons and opportunities Sheila Watt-Cloutier ........................................................................................................................ 301 Productivity studies in Greenland: Methodological problems and research design Gorm Winther .................................................................................................................................. 309 Abstracts ....................................................................................................................................... 337 Pigiarvik Video Project: Promoting Inuktitut through the use of video Marni Amirault ............................................................................................................................... 339 iv Illustrating Inuit wayfinding: Challenges and possibilities. Claudio Aporta ................................................................................................................................ 340 Story Maker - Unipkaaqtualiurut Collene Armstrong .......................................................................................................................... 341 The bridging of cultural barriers, communicating science in the Far North - insights and lessons learned. Gordon Balch and Susan Sang ...................................................................................................... 342 "Their Powerful Spirit: Inuit Women in a Century of Change" Janet Mancini Billson .................................................................................................................... 343 Possibilities for future Inuit housing Shawna Cochrane ........................................................................................................................... 344 Igloolik's art of community-based film-making Norman Cohn and Zacharias Kunuk ............................................................................................ 345 Which home is it? How bringing knowledge “home” to the Inuit changes what we bring back to our “home” Béatrice Collignon .......................................................................................................................... 346 Aging, Inuit life stages, and rethinking culture change in the Canadian Arctic Peter Collings .................................................................................................................................. 347 Longings of the heart: The women of St.Luke's Mission Hospital, Pangnirtung, 1930-1972 Emily E. S. Cowall Farrell ............................................................................................................. 348 Inuit historicities in transition: examples from Greenland and Nunavut Yvon Csonka ................................................................................................................................... 349 History of Inuktitut Uqauttin Weeks through press coverage Michelle Daveluy, Doreen Chow and Clint