CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism
Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don’t see even a silhouette in the distance. We meander into Inuit folklore this week, sharing what we could find on Inukpasugjuit.
Let’s start with sharing the children’s book that M was using as a resource for some of this and that we were looking at pictures from. If you click on the image, it will take you to where you can read the book online.
This site talks about the myth and it doubles up as a way for you to see the Syllabics and Roman Orthography versions of the Inuktitut language as it’s written in both of those and English. It’s very cool!
Me, Remy, went off on a side tangent when we started talking about language and how long it too for Inuktitut to be officially recognized as a language. This is where I talked about colonialism. I have a lot of feelings about that as someone with a strong Indigenous heritage. This website talks about the journey of the Inuktitut language from the beginning, through colonialism and residential schools, up to when it was re-recognized as an official language in the 1990s.
This is the Syllabics used in Inuktitut, which I find just really interesting and once you learn how it works, it’s not horribly difficult. Click on the picture to read more about the language and legislation.
And if you go to Omniglot by clicking this button, you can see more example images and hear people speaking in the language!
Finally, just some extras, on the button on the top, you’ll find a website that teaches you all sorts of things about the Inuit people about crafts, culture, government relationships, dogs, the environments, and lots more all in video format. The button on the bottom is labeled as The Vintage Nunavut Cookbook, and it’s what it sounds like: a cookbook!
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