adoption

Program name: Qimaivvik – (To Leave Something): Qimaivvik is IBC's cultural program. This program includes topics such as hunting and hunting methods, sewing techniques, legends, stories, language and traditional methods such as igloo building. Qimaivvik is aimed for the 16 to 60 age group.… Read more

 Program name: Takuyaksat
Takuyaksat was a Baker Lake production involving cultural activities, storytelling, hunting, sewing and legends.


Producer: Baker Lake - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation

Host: Hugh Haqpi

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2001
DURATION: 52 min.
GENRE: documentary
FORMAT: video, colour
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut, Fr-Eng st
DIRECTORS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Hélène Cousineau
PRODUCERS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Helene Cousineau… Read more

A documentary from Arnait Video Productions (Women's Video Collective of Igloolik). Abandoned by her father, a White RCMP officer, Vivi Kunuk was adopted by the Inuk family of her mother who raised her as a boy. This is but one remarkable chapter in her life.