Mike Beauregard, Carvers Moses Koonark and Jerry Ell handmining soapstone near Mary River iron ore deposit in central Baffin Island, 2012. Source: Wikimedia Commons. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handmining_Soapstone.jpg)
All citations within the Timeline and Storymap refer to works listed here. In addition, the class has assembled additional resources for further research.
Inuit government and culture websites
Inuit Culture and History
John Bennett and Susan Rowley, Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
Jason van Bruggen, “Keeping the Inuit Way of Life Alive in a Changing World | Short Film Showcase.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 July 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMEoFOZavs&t=23s.
Minnie Aodla Freeman, “Inuit”. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published June 08, 2010; Last Edited September 24, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuit
Alootook Ipellie, “The Colonization of the Arctic,” in Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives in Canadian Art, edited by Gerald McMaster and Lee-Ann Martin, 39-58. Hull,QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1992.
Zacharais Kunuk, director, 2010 Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., Kunuk Cohn Productions http://www.isuma.tv/en/inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change/movie
Nunavut Qiviut, “What are Muskox?” https://nunavutqiviut.com/pages/what-are-muskox
Luc Steinberg. “Nanook of the North – Walrus Hunt.” YouTube, YouTube, 17 Feb. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=amFbJ4bvPDI.
Inuit Art History
Janet Catherine Berlo, “Drawing (upon) the Past: Negotiating Identities in Inuit Graphic Arts Production,” from Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner, eds. Unpacking Culture: art and commodity in colonial and postcolonial worlds. 178-193. Berkeley: University of California, 1999.
Bernadette Dean, Katarina Soukup and Zacharias Kunuk, producers, 2009, Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit) Igloolik Isuma Productions, Kivalliq Inuit Association http://www.isuma.tv/isuma-productions/inuit-piqutingit
Steve Ducharme. “‘Igloo Art’ certification now in Inuit hands.” Nunatsiaq News, 10 Jul 2017. https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674igloo_art_certification_now_in_inuit_hands/
Nelson H.H. Graburn, “Authentic Inuit Art: Creation and Exclusion in the Canadian North,” Journal of Material Culture 9:2 (2004): 141-159.
Susan J. Gustavison et. Al. Northern Rock: contemporary Inuit stone sculpture. Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1999.
“History of Inuit Art,” Nanooq Inuit Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario. https://nanooq.ca/history-inuit-art/
Candice Hopkins, ”We Are Always Turning Around on Purpose: Reflecting on Three Decades of Indigenous Curatorial Practice,” Art Journal, Vol. 76, No 2, summer 2017: 39-47.
Heather Igloliorte, “Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum,” Art Journal, Vol. 76, No 2, Summer 2017: 100-113.
………… “Hooked Forever on Primitive Peoples”: James Houston and the Transformation of “Eskimo Handicrafts” to Inuit Art from Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips, Mapping Modernism: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism. 62-90. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018.
Gerald McMaster, ed., Inuit Modern: Art from the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre for the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2010.
Yasmin Nurming-Por, “Rocks, Stones and Dust.” Inuit Art Quarterly, 29, No. 1, Spring 2016. https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaq-online/29-1-rocks-stones-and-dust
Norman Vorano, Norman. “Inuit Men, Erotic Art.” Inuit Art Quarterly 23, no. 3, Fall 2008: 18–27.
………. “We All Have to Live by What We Know ”: Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arctic Environmental Change,” Gry Heden and Ann-Sofie N. Hedin, eds. Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate Change and Nature in Art. 76-93. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Titiraqtuq Norman Zepp, “Subtle Form and Sensitive Line: the Sculpture of Arviat.” Inuit Art Quarterly 30, no. 1, Spring 2017: 30-33.
Specific Artists
Lucy Tutsweetok: Simeonie Kunnkuk and Lucy T. Tutsweetok (trans. by Janet McGrath). “Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetuk: ‘I portray the old way of life, the period of change and the new way of life for the Inuit people.’” Inuit Art Quarterly 13, no. 4, Winter 1998: 20-22.
Darlene Coward Wright, Oviloo Tunnillie: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2019. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/oviloo-tunnillie/
Kananginaak Pootoogoo: “Kananginaak Pootoogoo,” directed by Malakie Kilabuk. , produced by Abraham Tagalik. Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, and Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, 2001. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/kananginaak-pootoogoo.
Pitseolak Ashoona: Pitseolak Ashoona with Dorothy Eber, Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, 2nd edition. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2003.
Decolonizing Research and Exhibitions
First Archivist Circle, Protocols for Native American Archival Materials: https://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/protocols.html
Amy Lonetree, Decolonizing museums: representing native America in national and tribal museums. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Jami Powell, “Visiting with Objects and Institutions,” Panorama Vol. 4 No. 2, Fall 2018. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/textualizing-intangible/powell/
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples. London : Zed Books ; Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago University Press, 2012.
Lisa Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 3, No. 3, 2014: 1-25.