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Okpik: Little Village in the Arctic follows Inuit/Gwitch’in hunter gatherer Kylik Kisoun as he discovers the lost art of building traditional Inuvialuit sod houses in his home community, Invuik ...
He believes sod houses in Inuit Nunangat appeared around 800 years ago, though it probably goes back more than 2,000 years before that, with the Tuniit (also known as the Dorset culture), ...
When the Kantners went back to Ohio to visit relatives late last year, they shared stories of their days raising two sons in a sod hut along Alaska's Kobuk River in the 1960s, '70s and '80s; The ...
A couple of miles up the coast at Qulalukat you can still see the remains of thousand-year-old Inuit sod houses, but Pond Inlet’s three or four hundred homes will not last that long.
For the Nain project, Newfoundland-born architect Todd Saunders took inspiration from Inuit sod house shelters on nearby Rose Island The town of Nain, on the rugged, mountainous Labrador coast ...
Pond Inlet on Baffin Island is one of the Inuit communities in the Canadian arctic facing a TB ... a community about 100 miles from where he lived in a sod house with a handful of other nomadic ...
Adamie Naulaq Inookie watched as archeologists excavated one of the sod houses in Qaummaarviit Territorial Park, near Iqaluit, unearthing spears, harpoons and arrowheads. The park has 11 sod houses, ...
NUUK, Greenland — Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions ...
Laimiki Innuaraq has fond memories of living in a traditional Inuit sod house, or qammaq, from 1943 to 1963.The sod house, with the aid of just a single qulliq (a traditional oil lamp), was enough to ...