Arts and Culture

Calls growing for law to protect Inuit art from fakes. But how would it be enforced?

‘In some ways, cultural appropriation approaches fraud but in a legal sense, it isn’t,’ says executive director of Inuit Art Foundation

Like many Nunavummiut, Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster was very young when she made her first carving. She carved a little seal head while in Grade 5 at Nakasuk School in Iqaluit.

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Goose hunting in full swing in Nunavik

Tom Whiteley, left, Lukasi Tukkiapik, David Pearson and Jeffrey Saunders Pearson (lying down in front) pose May 11 with their harvest from a recent hunting trip near Kuujjuaq. The group went on a four-day trek to a secret family location and came back with 71 geese. They handed most of them to people in in the community. (Photo courtesy of David Pearson)

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‘Action!’ on Apex Beach

The cast and crew of the TV series “North of North” film scenes at Apex Beach in Iqaluit in May. The show is set to premiere first in Canada on CBC and APTN on Jan. 7 and then globally on Netflix in spring 2025. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)