Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society

For us, coffee and culture are deeply connected Years ago, we started to think about how we could sustain support for language programming and the idea for a social enterprise was born. Our Executive Director, Pamela Hakongak Gross, was recently interviewed for CBC's Unreserved about how we're promoting and learning Inuinnaqtun through our coffee company Kaapittiaq. Listen to the whole episode, or find us at the 39:10 mark.

We are collaborating on a green building project in Cambridge Bay this summer, testing green technologies and energy efficient materials while integrating local knowledge and traditional architecture. On Tuesday May 18, from 1-5pm, we will be hosting a community event at the May Hakongak Community Library & Cultural Centre. You can virtually meet with our partnering team of researchers from the Green Building Technology Lab at the Southern Alberta Institute for Technology, ...discuss our ideas for green energy design, and provide feedback on what design features you would like to see brought to our community. There will be design activities for participants to share their thoughts. If you have built or retrofitted your house to consume less diesel and electricity, installed solar and wind energy systems on your cabin, or worked through your home challenges (such as ice build-up , mold, or high humidity levels), we would love to hear your thoughts and the solutions you designed! How do you keep your home and building comfortable while consuming less energy? We will also have virtual tours of our researcher’s lab in Calgary, and one-on-one sessions with their engineers to learn about their projects (and propose new ones too!). There will be 2 virtual tours of 30 min each, to be hosted at 1pm and 3pm. Please wear masks when attending the workshop, and avoid coming if you are feeling unwell. We will provide sanitizer, handwashing facilities, and masks for added safety. Attendance will be limited to 20 people at a time.

Our Elders-in-Residence are officially on their summer hiatus The May Hakongak Community Library & Cultural Centre is not the same without their beautiful spirits, but we are all wishing them a season full of joy, laughter, time spent outdoors and full of memories made with family. Bessie Pihoak Omilgoetok and Mabel Punnguq Etegik (not pictured are Mary Anakanerk Kaotalok and Annie Panak Atighioyak).

WE ARE HIRING! We're looking to bring a Finance and Office Administrator Trainee on staff. The successful candidate will be fully trained and mentored into this role. Initially the duties will include bookkeeping and support to our external accountant. Over the coming months, the individual will work closely with our accountant to learn each aspect of the accounting cycle including overseeing the activities of the PI/KHS gift shop, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, project management, preparing financial reports, and maintaining an effective system of internal controls. APPLY BY MAY 31, 2021. See www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/employmentopportunities for the complete job advertisement, details about the position, experience and qualifications needed, annual salary, and how to apply.

We are all in for Inuinnaqtun! We created a custom frame that you can add to your profile photo to tell us that you're all in too. Together, we've got this. Who is with us? To add the frame, go to your profile photo. Click the camera icon and then "add frame". Search "Akhuuqhimajara Inuinnaqtun" to find ours.

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Through the Mentor-Apprentice approach, mentors pass on language and transmit cultural knowledge to the next generation of competent speakers, who will in turn ...become mentors and language teachers to the following generation, creating a ripple effect across our communities. Apprentices will learn Inuinnaqtun through conversation and activity-based learning that includes traditional and cultural activities, integrating language into daily life. The PI/KHS has been developing an online course to support participants in their introduction to Mentor-Apprentice Programming, protocols, and approaches. This course will have regular live sessions, but will also be recorded and available to download. The project will help support Mentor-Apprentice teams across Inuinnait communities or wherever they live. This summer, our partners spent a week filming segments of the online course. The concept was teaching the main principles of Mentor-Apprentice through a traditional Nuu-chah-nulth story. In the first photo, we’re behind the scenes as the story of the Son of Raven unfolds and in the second photo we see a workshop session in Cambridge Bay with a couple of our MAP teams. For more information on this program, please check out our website below: https://www.makigiaqta.com/funding/funded-projects/ #PitquhirnikkutIlihautiniq #KitikmeotHeritageSociety #Makigiaqta #InuitTraining #Inuinnaqtun #UqarlutaInuinnaqtun #Iqaluktuuttiaq #CambridgeBay #Nunavut

Today our Elders-in-Residence and Staff received the COVID-19 vaccine! When COVID-19 first hit Canada, we were deeply concerned as it was a short time ago that colonization, disease and epidemics ravaged our communities, and their effects continue to this day. Our Elders recall and lived through these hardships and we have sadly lost many loved ones to either the flu or tuberculosis (TB). During the 1950s, a massive outbreak saw one-third of Inuit infected with TB. Treatment...Continue reading

Alianaqtuq Hiqiniq Utaffarman Nunaptingnun - We are Happy the Sun has Risen Over Our Land Pihoak’s memory of the return of the sun tradition was sparked today as we went to see it rise. This tradition was one that she recalls learning from her grandparents and we revived it today quana! The practice is to have a drink of water to welcome and honour the sun so it always comes back and then throw the water towards the sun for it to return again. ... We do this in honour of our ancestors, traditions, culture and language. We will do this every year to keep this tradition going in celebration of who we are as a people: Inuinnaujugut

Pihoak’s memory of the return of the sun tradition was sparked today as we went to see it rise. This tradition was one that she recalls learning from her grandparents and we revived it today quana! The practice is to have a drink of water to welcome and honour the sun so it always comes back and then throw the water towards the sun for it to return again. We do this in honour of our ancestors, traditions, culture and language. We will do this every year to keep this tradition going in celebration of who we are as a people: Inuinnaujugut