Inuvialuit Digital Sources
The following links will take you to key digital sources that share aspects of Inuvialuit culture, history, language and contemporary life.
Ambitious Healing, NWT
Podcast
Brian Kowikchuk and Amber Aleekukhost this podcast “where raw truth meets Indigenous strength…We explore recovery, sobriety, healing, replase, breaking intergenerational trauma and most importantly healing out loud.”
IFA 101
IFA 101 is an e-learning program produced by Inuvialuit organizations to teach the historical background to and ongoing significance of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, the land claim signed in 1984, which today forms the basis for self-government negotiations.
Inuktitut Magazine
Summer 2025
In this issue, Northwest Territories Commissioner Gerry Kisoun reflects on the 40th anniversary of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
Inuvialuit Communications Society
YouTube Video Archive
The Inuvialuit Communications Society Video Archive on Youtube contains more than 1,000 videos, featuring English and Inuvialuktun channels, cultural events and activities across the four decades that the society has generated Inuvialuit media.
Inuvialuit Digital Library
The Inuvialuit Digital Library is a collaboration between the Inuvialuit Cultural Centre and librarians from the University of Alberta which holds language resources, audio, video, text and image collections.
IRC Documents and Resources
This page includes a variety of documents, including reports, studies, policies and plans, produced over the past 40 years under the umbrella of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation.
Qikitaruq/Herschel Island Digital Preservation
This digital archive combines maps, oral histories and digital captures of the buildings, cultural features and landscapes at risk, telling the stories of centuries of Inuvialuit engagement with this important place.
Northwest Territories Archives
This link takes you to the search function for the vast holdings of the NWT Archives, including photos, documents, sound and video recordings.
Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
Library and Archives Canada
This archive includes the transcripts and related documents from the community hearingsof the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, also known as the Berger Inquiry, 1975.
Residential Schools Podcast
Inuit Experiences
This episode explores the opening of Grollier Hall and Stringer Hall, two residential schools in Inuuvik, in the 1950s, more than a decade after the impacts were known to Canadian Government officials.
Tusaayaksat Magazine
Issue Archive
This digital archive shares back-issues of Tusaayaksat magazine, produced by Inuvialuit to celebrate their/our culture, heritage and language, to its beginning in 1983.
Published Sources by and About Inuvialuit
The books and articles listed below are some of the primary sources written by, with and about Inuvialuit. Other important Inuvialuit texts and documents are excerpted on the Sharing Our Inuvialuit History page. The Taimani publication linked below is also recreated on our Timeline page.
Nipaturuq
An Inuvialuit youth-led magazine
©2021 – Present
More info here on Facebook.
Meaningful Consultation, Meaningful Participants and Meaning Making: Inuvialuit Perspectives on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and the Climate Crisis
Letitia Pokiak
©2020 Masters thesis, University of Victoria
Available here.
Taimani – At That Time
Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. Edited by Charles Arnold, Wendy Stephenson, Bob Simpson and Zoe Ho
©2011 Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Inuuvik
Available here.
Inuvialuit Nautchiangit: Relationships between People and Plants
Robert Bandringa and Inuvialuit Elders
©2010 Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre, Inuuvik.
The Inuvialuit Year: A Showcase of Contemporary Inuvialuit Life and Culture
Tusaayaksat
©2009 Inuvialuit Communications Society, Inuuvik
Celebrating 25 Years: The Inuvialuit Final Agreement
Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
©2009 Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Inuuvik
Available here.
Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
Ishmael Alunik, Eddie Kolausok, and David Morrison
©2003 Raincoast Books, University of Washington Press, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Vancouver, Seattle, and Gatineau
Inuvialuit Pitqusiit: The Culture of the Inuvialuit
Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre
©1991 Northwest Territories Education, Yellowknife
Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland: Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
Thomas Berger
©1977 Minister of Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa.
Available here.
Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
Knud Rasmussen
©1927 G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York
Lillian Elias narrating sections of this website into Uummarmiutun, spring 2026 (Photo Credit: David Stewart, Inuvialuit Communications Society.)
Inuvialuit Living History Project Publications
The Inuvialuit Living History Project was launched in 2009. The following is a select list of public and academic-oriented articles and books written by our project team over the years. Feel free to reach out through the contacts page for digital copies of publications.
Inuvialuit Sivuniksait Kappiangaqiyuaq: The Urgent Question of Inuvialuit Futures & Its Relation to the Care of Ancestors and Their Belongings
Natasha Lyons, Letitia Pokiak, Lisa Hodgetts, Beverly Amos, Michael O’Rourke, Shirley Elias, Albert Elias and Charles Arnold
From Handbook of Oral Traditions in Archaeology, edited by Kisha Supernant, George Nicholas, Margaret Bruchac and Andrew Martindale.
2025 Oxford University Press, Oxford
Available here
Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Continuing a Proud Inuvialuit Artistic Tradition
Lisa Hodgetts and Natasha Lyons
2020 Tusaayaksat Spring 2020, pp. 74-79.
Available here
Enduring Social Communities of the Inuvialuit: From the Yukon North Slope to the Circumpolar Stage
Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Mervin Joe, Ashley Piskor, Renie Arey, Jason Lau, Rebecca Goodwin, Walter Bennett, Cassidy Lennie-Ipana, Mataya Gillis, Hayven Elanik, Angelina Joe, Starr Elanik, David Stewart and Arlene Kogiak
2022 In The Inuit World, edited by Pamela Stern, pp.34-51. Routledge, New York.
Inuvialuit Living History on the Land
Lisa Hodgetts, Natasha Lyons, Renie Arey, Walter Bennett, Mervin Joe, Hayven Elanik, Starr Elanik, Mataya Gillis, Rebecca Goodwin, Angelina Joe, Arlene Kogiak, Cassidy Lennie-Ipana, Jason Lau, Ashley Piskor, and David Stewart
2020 Above & Beyond (First Air In Flight Magazine, Fall 2020)
“You Help Us Tell our Story”: Making Inuvialuit Living Histories in Digital and Real Time
Ethel-Jean Gruben, Ashley Piskor, Mervin Joe, Lena Kotokak, Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Kate Hennessy, Elizabeth Edgerton, David Stewart, Charles Arnold, Chris von Szombathy and Jasmine Lukuku
2022 Inuit Studies 46(2): 91–109.
Available here
The Inuvialuit Living History Project: Digital Return as the Forging of Relationships between Institutions, People, and Data
Kate Hennessy, Natasha Lyons, Mervin Joe, Stephen Loring, and Charles Arnold
2013 Museum Anthropology Review 7(1-2): 44-73.
Where the Wind Blows Us: Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North.
Natasha Lyons
2013 The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America Series, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
The Wisdom of Elders: Inuvialuit Social Memories of Continuity and Change in the 20th Century
Natasha Lyons
2010 Arctic Anthropology 47(1): 22–38.
