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Ukaanaaq Mukyungnik, an Inuit elder, cleans a carribou skin at her home Education is important to the Inuit of Nunavut. These students and their teachers are Arctic College's 'Nunavut Teacher Education Program' (NTEP) "Class of 2004". Their land claim agreement with the Canadian government says that the target for Inuit employment in the territorial civil service is 80 per cent. Inuit employment in the Nunavut government has varied between 40 and 45 per cent since the territory was created. These students are all from Arviat, Nunavut and the majority have already been teaching in the Nunavut school system for several years Jessie Kaludjak of Arviat, Nunavut in her traditional Amouti showing off her love of traditional ways for the Canada day festivities July 1, 2002.
Ukaanaaq Mukyungnik, an Inuit elder
Nunavut Teacher Education Program' (NTEP) "Class of 2004"
traditional Amouti
The staff and management of the Kiluk Arts and Crafts store in Arviat, Nunavut get ready to hang their new sign. Novemeber 2003 Andrew Panigoneak and Inuk hunter and his wife, Winnie use a dog team to hunt Nanuk, the polar bear, Arviat has the largest number of dog eams of any community in Nunavut. The skin will be made into a pair of pants to keep Andrew warm while hunting on the tundra. Novemeber 11, 2003 Pauktuutit <http://www.pauktuutit.on.ca/> the non-profit association representing all Inuit women in Canada has been trying to protect Inuit individual and collective intellectual property rights to the design of the traditional Inuit woman's Amouti. Agaaqtuq Konek (left) her grand-daughter (centre) and Emma Konek, Agaaqtuq's daughter, were getting ready to participate in the "Traditional Clothing" competition... part of the hamlet of Arviat's Canada Day celebrations. July 2002
Kiluk Arts and Crafts store
OsoPolar
Traditional ways survive in Nunavut
"Traditional Clothing" competition
Pretty much the whole community of Arviat turns out for the Canada Day celebrations and parade.Nunavut's Member of Parliament Nancy Karetak-Lindell (in the yellow and red jacket) always tries to come back to her hometown for the festivities. Here she's chatting with Aayak Anowtalik. Inuit in Arviat Nunavut watching for the return of the mushers March 2003

Frank Akammak (standing) and Jimmy Muckpah eye the angles of Jimmy's carving. Soapstone carving is going through hard times in Nunavut these days. Art galleries aren't buying much work. Frank and Jimmy were participating in a Nunavut wide carvers' workshop in Arviat organized by the territorial government of Nunavut. August 2003
Canada Day in Arviat_Nunavut
Inuit in Arviat Nunavut
The angles of Jimmy's carving
(c) 2003 George Lessard (CANADA)

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