Inuit Testimony, Critique & Practice
Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series
Our fall 2022 spotlight shines on Inuit fiction writers, curators, visual and performing artists, chefs, scholars and Elders, to name but a few. We focus on authors from Inuit Nunangat but also give a nod to Kalaallit writers and editors. Both art and the arctic feature frequently throughout, and approaches range from funny to frightening, often with a mix of both. Yet these selections represent only the tiniest sampling of Inuit authors' offerings; browse our Indigenous Authors in the Spotlightbibliography on Zotero to start discovering more.
Thank you to Chloe Belair-Morin for curating and organizing this collection.
The life and art of Germaine Arnaktauyok
Germaine Arnaktauyok & Gyu Oh
2015
One of the Canadian North's most prolific and recognizable artists tells the story of her life and art in this illustrated memoir.
Revitalizing Inuit traditional tattooing
Angela Hovak Johnston
2017
Photographs and stories of Inuit women’s journeys to revitalize culture through traditional tattooing.
Inuit oral history and Project Naming
Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, ed.
2022
Inuit testimony, photography and renaming combine to rewrite settler history and challenge a legacy of colonial visualization.
>Qummut qukiria!
Heather Igloliorte et al eds
2022
Art, Culture, and Sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North. Showcases thriving art and culture within and beyond Inuit and Sámi homelands.
Inuit Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikku
Heather Igloliorte et al
2021
Inuit Moving Forward Together exhibition catalogue, also curated by asinnajaq, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski and Kablusiak, with over 100 contributing artists.
Inuit Art Quarterly
Napatsi Folger & Emily Henderson, Eds
2019
Special issue with all Inuit contributors, emerging from Dr. Igloliorte’s Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership project.
Last Night in Nuuk
Niviaq Korneliussen
2019
Funny and fearless, Korneliussen’s debut novel tells the coming of age stories of five characters in Greenland’s capital Nuuk.
Annie Muktuk and other stories
Norma Dunning
2017
Responding to colonial depictions of Inuit communities, Dunning’s raw and funny collection honours what it means to be Inuit.
Hunter with harpoon
Markoosie Patsauq
2020 (1970)
New English translation of acclaimed 1970 novel. A vivid tale of traditional Inuit life and community.
Inuit elders observe climate change
145 contributing Elders
2016
Interviews with Elders directly connect climate change to material and everyday life in the contemporary Canadian Arctic.
Ajjiit: dark dreams of the ancient Arctic
Sean Tinsley & Rachel Qitsualik
2011
A collection of dark fantasy stories inspired by and incorporating traditional Inuit narratives.
Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq
2018
Mixing prose and poetry, fiction, memoir, and myth, Tagaq crafts a stunning and heartfelt story of womanhood.
A cookbook from Igloolik
Micah Arreak, Annie Désilets....
2020
...Lucy Kappianaq, Glenda Kripanik & Kanadaise Uyarasuk. Recipes from land and sea--from Arctic char pizza to caribou chili.
Sanaaq: an Inuit novel
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
2014
Intimate vignettes of an Inuit family negotiating the changes in life brought on by the arrival of the Qallunaat in the mid-nineteenth century.
Inuit Worldviews: An Introduction
J.G. Oosten, Ed.
2017
Learn about knowledge production and transmission from Inuit Elders.