Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk: writer, teacher and passionate defender of Inuktitut
Acclaimed Inuk author wrote more than 20 books in Inuktitut
*** This is the third episode in our four-part series called Another Country: Change and Resilience in Nunavik.***
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk is best known as the author of Sanaaq, the first novel written in Inuktitut in Canada.
But over the course of her extraordinary life, she wrote more than 20 books, many of them aimed at young Inuit readers. Her work contains both rich philosophical insights and practical instructions for how to survive in the north.
She was also a teacher, an artist, a thinker with profound ideas about justice and community, and a passionate defender of Inuktitut.
In the third episode of a special series on change and survival in Nunavik, IDEAS speaks with Qiallak Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk's daughter and the mayor of her home community Kangirsujuaq; Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk, the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada; and Nelly Duvicq, a teacher in Nunavik.
*This episode was produced by Pauline Holdsworth, with help from Nahlah Ayed and Nicola Luksic.
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