- Nunavut Tunngavik - http://www.tunngavik.com/
Promoting the development of Inuit economic self-sufficiency and prosperity through responsible management of Inuit owned lands and resources, and through promotion of and support to Inuit business in Nunavut.
- Inuit Art Foundation - http://www.inuitart.org/
A non-profit organization owned and controlled by Canadian Inuit (Eskimo) artists, by providing professional development opportunities for artists and promoting Inuit art worldwide. Contains information on the Inuit Art Quarterly magazine, the Inuit Artists' Shop in Ottawa and the Inuit Artists' College.
- Avataq Cultural Institute - http://www.avataq.qc.ca/
Non-profit organisation created by the Inuit of Nunavik (Labrador peninsula) to protect and promote their traditional culture. The programmes include archaeology, oral history, place names, and genealogy. A sample of the Inuit art collection that was donated to the Institute by the Department of Indian Affairs and the North, Canada.
- Place names in Inuktitut - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/inuit.html
Original Inuit forms of places in Greenland (now official in Inuktitut) and Canada (in Nunavut and else), from the site GeoNative.
- Iñupiaq Cultural Resources - http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/inupiaq.html
Information on the North Alaskan Inuit or Inupiaq people, maintained by the Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ANKN).
- Inuit Business Directory - http://inuit.pail.ca/
A national directory maintained by the Pan Arctic Inuit Logistics Corporation, listing only Inuit-run businesses in Canada.
- Inupiaq Studies Curriculum - http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/curriculum/nwabsd1/nwabsd_inupiaq.html
Example of integration of Inuit issues in the school, in Alaska (Inupiaq: North Alaskan Inuit)
- Qikiqtani Inuit Association - http://www.nunanet.com/~lands/
A non-profit organization, representing the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada.
- Kitikmeot Inuit Association - http://www.polarnet.ca/polarnet/kia.htm
An organization to defend, preserve and promote social, cultural and economic benefits to Inuit of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut.
- Siberian Yupik and Aleut - http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/aleut.htm
Cultural and linguistic notes about these peoples.
- The Arctic String Figure Project - http://www.isfa.org/arctic.htm
A collection of well-illustrated detailed instructions on how to make string figures, based on original descriptions of traditional figures collected by researchers in the Arctic. Of particular interest is a series of 100 figures collected by Diamond Jenness, in 1924.
- Nunacom Font Information - http://www.nunavut.com/technology/english/download.html
Nunacom is a 7-bit font designed for reading Inuktitut syllabic web pages for both Windows and Mac computers. Site has a keyboard layout and character combination chart for accurate placement of diacritics, and installation instructions for the TrueType font, which may be downloaded for free.
- Cape Dorset Inuit Art and Inuit Cultural Perspectives - http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cape_dorset/index1.html
Links the graphic work of some of the famous artists from the community of Cape Dorset with the memories, myths and legends of elders from the community of Igloolik.
- Inupiaq - Cultural Profile - http://nnlm.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html
Information by The University of Washington about the traditional medicine of the North Alaskan Inuit or Inupiaq people.
- Alaska Native Heritage Center - http://www.alaskanative.net/
The Alaska Native Heritage Center is a gathering place that celebrates, perpetuates and shares Alaska Native culture, language, heritage and tradition.
- Tuktu and Nogak Project - http://aulak.polarnet.ca/tuktu/main.html
A community-driven effort to collect and share Inuit ecological knowledge of caribou and calving areas in the Bathurst Inlet area of the Kitikmeot region, Nunavut, Canada. The site has a photo gallery, a report on the Elder-Youth Camp on the Hiuqqittaaq River, and a list of the interviewees.
- Arctic Cyber Anthropology - http://www.nbc.brygge.dk/
Research project "Inuit in Cyberspace" by Neil Blair Christensen, Dept. of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen. It has a substantial amount of annotated and categorized links (400+) for the circumpolar Arctic.
- Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) - http://www.inuit.org
International organization representing approximately 150,000 Inuit living in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, Russia.
- Satuumavik School - http://www.kativik.qc.ca/ulluriaq/
Serving the Inuit community in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in the Nunavik region of Northern Québec. School projects and events, and a profile of community life created by the grades 4 and 5 classes.
- North - Landscape of the Imagination - http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/16/index-e.html
A history of the Canadian North and its influences on the Arts of its residents and outsiders, from the pre-contact period up to the modern era. Compiled by the National Library of Canada, with extensive lists for suggested reading.
- Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami - http://www.itk.ca/
Information about ITK's role in political, cultural and economic development of the Inuit of Canada. In-depth description of their history, culture, territory. Includes maps and visuals.
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