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Many Indigenous Peoples would like to be
left alone to pursue traditional life-styles.
The encroaching development initiatives
from outside First Nations territories
renders this relatively impossible. The
clash of cultures demands that oral
societies learn the ways of the dominant
societies around them.
Can these predominantly oral communities
retain personal and collective traditions and
values, while augmenting this knowledge
with the appropriate skills required to ensure
the survival of their communities, given the
impact of globalization?
When we talk about access to information, whose information are
we speaking about?
Rosemarie
Kuptana
Inuit
Nation
In conversation with
Carmen
Caullan Catrivil
Mapuche Nation
Video
Video
Translation: You know there may be lots of cultural intrusions
into your lives, into our lives that will threaten our culture, our
language, our family structures, but how we take those cultural intrusions
and how we use the new intrusions such as television, or such as computers
or any new technology or anything, the attitude that we have towards
that new intrusion will determine whether it has power over us or
not.
And
from an Inuit point of view, we’ve always been a society that
has taken any intrusion into our society and used it as tool to help
us preserve our language and our culture and I think it’s because
of that attitude we’ve been able to survive in the kind of environment
that we live in and this is one thought that my grandmother always
left me with. She had a very strong influence on my life. (That)-
she said that, "if you are grounded in one culture, meaning my
own," she said, "you will always survive in any other culture
because you know who you are and you know where you are coming from
and you know where you are going."
Do you agree with Rosemarie's point of view?
What is the impact of information and communications
technologies on your community?
Whose interests are being served, anyway?
What is the relevance of universal access to your culture?
POLICY
UNESCO
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Multilingual document (pdf)
UNESCO
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC
AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
Culture (Portal)
PROFILE
Ms.
Rosemarie Kuptana
Former President,
Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Climate Change Threatens the Arctic
United Nations Environment Program
In Focus Archive
How the North is Getting Burned
By Alanna Mitchell
The Globe and Mail - June 5, 2001
Inuit Circumpolar
Conference
Arctic Council
Arctic Council
Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat
Arctic circumpolar participation in the Global Forum for Indigenous Issues
and the World Summit on the Information Society
Geneva, December 2003
IDENTITY
Atanarjuat -
The Fast Runner
Based on an ancient Inuit legend
Atanarjuat was filmed with an all-Inuit cast in Inuktitutand the first feature
to be made
in the Inuktitut language
Un Certain Regard - Official Selection - Cannes 2001
Winner Camera d'or for Best First Feature Film
Nanook of the North
The Museum of Modern Art
How I Filmed Nanook of the North
Adventures with the Eskimos to Get Pictures of Their Home Life
and Their Battles with Nature to Get Food.
The Walrus Fight. By Robert J. Flaherty, F.R.G.S. (1922)
Susan Aglukark,
Inuit Singer and Songwriter
MEDIA
Radio:
CBC
Nunavut - Canada
KNR (Kalaallit Nunaata
Radio) Greenland National Broadcasting Company
NRK Sámi Radio
Aboriginal Voices
Radio
Canada
American Indian Radio on
Satellite
United States
Television:
CBC
Nunavut - Canada
APTN Aboriginal Peoples
Television Network
Canada
Native American
Public Telecommunications (NAPT)
Pacific Islanders in
Communications (PIC)
Pacific Islanders
in Communications (PIC)
Sovereign Stories
Native Networks - Redes Indígenas
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
Online Exhibitions
The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
Digital Himalaya
Agricultural Cycles in the Apa Tani villages
Electronic Cultural Atlas
Initiative
The
LACITO Archive
Linguistic Data Archiving Project
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