Circles For Reconciliation

VIA ABNET: Inuit Community Roundtable Testimonies Access to Arctic hearings -POND INLET Saturday, February 6, 2021... 9:00 Am to 9:00 PM One day before 120 million viewers will watch the Super Bowl live from Tampa, another live television event will unfold in Pond Inlet in the Canadian arctic that maybe a few thousand people worldwide will be lucky enough to watch. All day, a continuous stream of Inuit men and women, elders and youth, unilingual and bilingual, will step up to a microphone to say what they think and feel about being bulldozed by the gigantic multinational Baffin land Iron Mines Corporation, their own Canadian government, their own Nunavut government and their own Inuit Organizations to surrender their land, wildlife, culture and human rights in order that those bulldozers make an uncountable profit at their personal expense. Unforgettable testimonies at similar hearings in 2012 are among the most astounding scenes in a film made in 2014 called Ataatama Nunanga (My Father's Land), another show only a few thousand people worldwide ever have seen. This film is on iTunes in thirty countries subtitled in six different languages if you want to preview Saturday's show in a 'historical context. https://itunes.apple.com//myfathers-land-ataata/id14626794 This Saturday's Pond Inlet Testimony WILL BE LIVE and will appear on Uvagut TV, launched just two weeks ago with no outside funding by a small Inuit non-profit, Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV), and the Inuit media arts collective ISUMA, both operating out of Igloolik, Nunavut for the past thirty years. TO ACCESS THIS BROADCAST : Uvagut TV is Live on Shaw Direct satellite channel 267 nationally; Co-op cable channel 240 in Nunavut and NWT; FCNQ cable channel 308 in Nunavut, northern Quebec; OR access online with English or Inuktitut audio feeds. www.uvagut.tv www.isuma.tv www.isuma.tv/nirb-audio-feed http://www.isuma.tv/uvagut-tv-media-info AUDIO LINK: AUDIO: Listen to Baffinland Hearings, ENGLISH or INUKTUT (low bandwidth) | IsumaTV

Happy New Year from our team at Circles for Reconciliation. We can't wait to see you again in 2021, by Zoom or in person (we'll get there!) #circlesforreconciliation #languages #celebrateculture #circles #sharing #winnipeg #winnipeglocal #national #canada #manitoba

Day 10 of our Celebration of Languages campaign! Today we are sharing the greeting in Dakota. Our speaker today is Franklin Brown. Please participate in our celebration of languages and share our videos! [Translation: Greetings and welcome to Circles for Reconciliation. The Truth and Reconciliation commissioners define reconciliation as an ongoing process of establishing and maintaining respectful relationships. We are trying to do our part. We are a grassroots partnership be...tween Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Winnipeg with the goal of fostering reconciliation. We do this by setting up circles composed of 10 persons each (5 are Indigenous people and 5 are non-Indigenous). Each circle meets once a week for 10 weeks. There is no cost to join as a participant. Each circle meeting is just over an hour and Circles are held at locations all over Winnipeg and across Canada. What is a circle like? How does it work? Look through our website and you will see lots of information. If you wish to register, you can do it and about two minutes right on our website. Our non-Indigenous participants tell us how much they are learning and how much they value the new friends they are meeting. And our Indigenous participants tell us how they appreciate being listened to and respected. Please come and join us (names web address)]. Note: all videos were recorded before COVID-19 restricted filming videos in person #celebrateculture #languages #truthandreconciliation #calltoaction92 #culturalawareness #dakota See more