[:en] www.nti-inhabit.com (March 24, 2020) - Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and Inhabit Media Inc. are committed to ensuring that Inuit children and youth have access to high-quality Inuktut books and educational resources to support language learning from home. As this need is now urgent due to the current COVID-19 crisis [...]
The Association francophones du Nunavut agrees that Inuit, in their own homeland, a territory which has a majority of Inuit citizens, should have access to Inuktut language education and government services. AfrancophoneNu Inuit language rights
FINAL-2019-12-17 UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages United Nations New York, United States of America High-level meeting Closing of the International Year of Indigenous Languages December 17, 2019 Uqausivut Sanngijjutivut Uqausivut atausiujjutivut Uqausivut pilirijjutivut Uqausivut ilagiitsiarutivut Uqausivut qanuingitiarutivut Our Language provides us with strength Our Language unites us [...]
For Immediate Release Inuit are maintaining Inuktut despite Mulroney Cabinet secret instructions to block its use (December 5, 2019) NTI today released a damning 1990 Government of Canada cabinet document (secret for 20 years; obtained under Access to Information Act) which shows Prime Minister Mulroney and his cabinet [...]
What’s in an Inuktut name? The reclaiming of Inuit history and language, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. says. The Inuit birthright organization has encouraged 14 municipalities in the territory that still use English names to consider a switch to their original Inuktut names. “With 2019 being the International Year of Indigenous [...]
BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN Twenty years after legislators carved out Nunavut from the Northwest Territories as a new, majority-Inuit territory, advocates say Ottawa must do more to protect and enhance language and culture to live up to that vision. One of the main objectives in forming Nunavut was to [...]
“One of the aspirations for Nunavut was for Inuktut to remain the majority language” Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. marked Nunavut Day with a pledge to become an Inuktut-language workplace. NTI officials announced those plans at an event held in Kugluktuk on Wednesday, July 9. “One of the aspirations for Nunavut was [...]
[:en]Nunavut Day was celebrated on Tuesday and we’re 20 years into the creation of a territory with tremendous promise. Much has been accomplished over two decades and much remains to be done. Among the priorities is – or should be – the establishment of Inuktut-based education from kindergarten to Grade [...]
NTI President Aluki Kotierk Opening Remarks - Indigenous Health Conference Download Speaking Notes: 2018-05 Indigenous Health Conference- Opening Remarks May 24, 2018Mississauga, Ontario Introduction In February 2017, Bernice Clarke in speaking about the death of her mother Annie Kootoo stated that Inuktitut may have been a difference maker for [...]
