By David Millar, March 1, 2016.
What do you think the biggest threat to our Arctic heritage sites is? Unlike most parts of the world, where it is human activity, in Canada’s Arctic it is climate change. Where the freezing temperatures once preserved delicate structures and organic materials, rising temperatures are now destroying them.
Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world’s first Inuktitut language film on the topic, takes the viewer “on the land” with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic. This unforgettable film helps us to appreciate Inuit culture and expertise regarding environmental change and indigenous ways of adapting to it.
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