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Qummut Qukiria!

Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

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Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a Sámi woman’s headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond.

Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social wellbeing, and cultural identity.

Contributors

Anna Hudson

Anna Hudson is a professor of Canadian art history and curatorial studies at York University.

Heather Igloliorte

Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk scholar from Nunatsiavut and is the Concordia University research chair in circumpolar Indigenous arts.

Jan-Erik Lundström

Jan-Erik Lundström, a curator, critic, and art historian, is the former director of the Sámi Center for Contemporary Art.
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 A glossary of words and language used throughout the text. ; ; 18 $1.80

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 An introduction from the collections three editors. ; ; 10 $1.00

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 This chapter explores the author’s relationship to his native Sámi language. Topics discussed include colonial language, family language (language spoken at home), self identification, … 4 $0.40

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 This chapter is written in both English and Inuktitut. The chapter discusses moving from the North to Montreal, family, a mother’s sacrifice, and hair. 5 $0.50

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 This chapter focuses on the Sámi vocal genre of Juoigan. Discussing Indigenous aesthetics, ceremonial and communal use of singing, learning and passing down of tradition, symbolism and … 9 $0.90

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 This chapter explores duodji, traditional Sámi craft making. Discussing duodji studies and the use of language at the Sámi University of Applied Arts, sources of knowledge and … ; ; 8 $0.80

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 This chapter examines the works of religious ethnographers and missionaries to the Canadian north in the twentieth century. Discussing topics including oblate ethnographers Emile Petitot, Father … 12 $1.20

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 This chapter examines how to map the land of the Sámi. Topics discussed include cartography, early mention of culture in northern europe, mapping sami cultural mentions and culture through … 13 $1.30

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 This chapter discusses the relationship between Joar Nango, and Sausane Havekla working together on cross-cultural studies of the Canadian and European arctic. ; 13 $1.30

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 In this chapter Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory describes life in the arctic, the history of Nunavut, the connection of being Inuit and Inuk, making art, traditional living and practices, and the … ; 14 $1.40

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 This chapter explores Sámpi resurgence and resistance in Indigenous circumpolar art in recent years. Discussing identity politics, Sámi depictions in popular culture, decolonial … 24 $2.40

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 This chapter is an edited interview between Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Georgiana Uhlyarik. Topics discussed include the art project Silaup Putunga (2018), COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter … ; 8 $0.80

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 This chapter focuses on the work of Pia Arke, a Danish-Greenlandic artist who focuses on the border zone between the colonizer and the colonized. Topics discussed include ethno-poetics, Inuit … ; 10 $1.00

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 This chapter focuses on the healing power of music, particularly for the chapter’s author Nelson Tagoona. Discussing the tradition of Inuit and Inuk throat singing, his art of throatboxing, … 10 $1.00

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 This visual essay explores the resurgence of Indigenous art and practice across the circumpolar north and its peoples, the chapter hightings multiple artists and forms of art across the tundra. ; 18 $1.80

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 This chapter explores the Tunirrisiangit or seal feast art exhibit. Discussing COVID-19, going online, Inuit art and the digital divide, and includes highlights from the exhibit. ; ; 22 $2.20

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 This chapter examines the sculpture Ahqahizu. Discussing the methods used to carve it, its vision, and the larger project to show and celebrate Indigenous art. ; 6 $0.60

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 This chapter explores the making of Ahqahizu largely through photos. 6 $0.60

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 This chapter is an interview between the artist behind Ahqahizu, Koomuatuk (Kuzy) Curley and Anna Hudson. ; 6 $0.60

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 The chapter explores the reintroduction of Inuit language and culture into contemporary daily life. Discussing Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) or Inuit Traditional Knowledge, accessibility and … 4 $0.40

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 This chapter is an interview between Chris Henderson and Sky Panipak about Henderson’s podcast The Unsettled Hunter. Discussing Indiginous and non-Indiginous hunting practices, animal … ; 4 $0.40

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 This chapter discusses the connection between a glisá (chest in Sámi) and culture. Discussing family, relationships, tradition, eco-philosophy, and the larger decolonization process in … ; 15 $1.50

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 This chapter reflects on Greenland, in its current state from pre-colonization to self-rule. 4 $0.40

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 This chapter explores what reconciliation between the north and the south of Canada means. 5 $0.50

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 This chapter is a transcript from interviews with Ruben Koomangapik and Koomuatuk Curley, conducted by Adam Alorut. Discussing art and social justice, culture, the art making process, being away … 8 $0.80

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 This chapter reflects on the art installation of Pil Osampi. Discussing the Jovsset Ante Sara vs. the State of Norway, reindeer husbandry, the Norwegian court, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, … 8 $0.80

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 This chapter is an interview with Anne Lajla Utsi and Liisa Holmberg conducted by Anna Hudson. Discussing COVID-19, Sámi art, Indigenuity, and reflections on the Home Sweet Home Project. ; ; 10 $1.00

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 This chapter is an illustrated story written by Taqralik Partridge, afterstory told by Mai Britt Utsi, and illustrated by Nils Ailo Utsi. ; ; 8 $0.80

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 This chapter is an interactive chapter with a video component that can be found online, it is an exploration of Inuit futures as the world becomes more urban, and technologically advice, focusing … ; ; 18 $1.80

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 This chapter focuses on Sananguaq’s closing ceremony. Discussing Inuit stone carvings, heritage projects, youth participation, and a call to action for more work like this. ; ; 6 $0.60

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 This chapter reflects on the SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut, the first comprehensive nationally touring exhibition on Nunatsiavummiut art and art history in Canada. The chapter … 14 $1.40

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 This chapter explores the author Jocelyn Piirainen experience curating the Tunirrusiangit exhibition. 6 $0.60

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 This chapter offers reflections on the present state of Inuit art today and the challenges and changes that have been ongoing. Discussing the growth of northern art industry, the Inuit art … ; 10 $1.00

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 This chapter reflects on decolonization and a postcolonial future from a Sámi perspective. 8 $0.80

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 This chapter explores the horror film series Arctic Chills created by 23 Indigenous screenwriters from the Canadian and European arctics. Discussing the Indigenous tradition of oral storytelling, … 6 $0.60

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 This chapter reflects on the experience of the Sámi people. ; 8 $0.80

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 This chapter offers a reflection on the first all-night festival of Inuit art and performance, food and film. ; 12 $1.20

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 This chapter reflects on the the role of women in Sami culture and how they are being "rematriated." Discussing the influence of colonialism on Sámi women, the ladjogahpir, … ; 10 $1.00

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 This chapter focuses on the art of sealskin sewing. Discussing forms of Inuit mentorship, traditions passed down by women, the effects on the assimilation, the benefits of sealskin, the art of … ; 14 $1.40

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 The book concludes with a illustrated story of Naka and the Giant. ; 20 $2.00