Little Wolf

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[akumik]

Hello dear friends! I know I don’t make many original posts, and I know that I mainly reblog Finnish vocab and the sort, however I did mention that I would post about my other target languages periodically. Lately I have taken the initiative to learn more about my non-white background (Does that make sense?). More specifically, Innu (Montagnais) and Inuit. I have recently picked up the languages as well. I’m not sure if anyone else would like to learn these languages (Innu-aimun and Inuktitut) as well, or even just research some more about them and the culture. I have decided to leave a list of resources that I have found, just in case.  Innu-aimun:  http://www.innu-aimun.ca/ http://www.native-languages.org/montagnais.htm http://www.nametauinnu.ca/en/tour Inuktitut: https://soundcloud.com/user-623280927 http://www.tusaalanga.ca/splash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGAbctSHuY http://www.labradorvirtualmuseum.ca/home/inuttut_dictionary.htm Also an important note: The dialects (mostly for Inuktitut) may not be the ones that you feel like learning or researching, I apologize if that is the case.  Even if you don’t want to learn, I hope this post is a reminder that these languages exist, or an introduction to the languages.       

[akumik]

hi! I'm an Inuk living in southwestern ontario, and I have been trying for a few years now to learn more about my Inuit identity. Unfortunately, I don't have living family members to learn from. I was wondering if you knew of any good online resources for learning?

Sorry for the late reply! I have a list of language learning resources somewhere here, I'll reblog it for you!

As for some online resources about the culture, I'm not really sure. I found this site which may have some info for you! I don't know if that link will work but I sure hope it does

Also, Anaana's Tent, Iglaq, and Takuginai are some shows that may be helpful! You may be able to watch them online but also on aptn. They're for kids but they're fun and I really like them.

Nunavut Animation Lab has a couple cool animations about some legends (Qalupalik and Lumaajuuq are two of the ones I seen) and I think there are some stories on YouTube as well

Nunavut Animation Lab: Qalupalik

This animated short tells the story of Qalupalik, a part-human sea monster that lives deep in the Arctic Ocean and preys on children who do

Hopefully this was somewhat helpful at least. Good luck!

[akumik]

Kingummungaaq by Joshua Haulli

[thesongofawinterwolf]

Since tumblr ate this post the last time I tried to make it, here we are again. I went on an adventure today and got harassed by the wind. 😂

It was -30 Celcius and again, I wasn’t wearing any mittens or a hat but I was still nice and toasty. -30 was a lot nicer than the -40 it was earlier this morning. Also my amautik kept the harsh wind from piercing my soul. 😂

If anyone wanted to see my sealskin kamiks now that my Anaana finished the embroidery, here they are!

[akumik]

Atelihai, completely forgot I had a langblr and logged back in to find that I had lost all notifications. Also, my post about cleaning partridges with my Atâtsiak was flagged. Cool. 🤦🏽‍♀️ All the same, I'll try and post more here!

[akumik]

I know I haven’t posted in forever, but I found these photos of my Atâtsiak and I from earlier this spring. A family friend had killed some partridges and my Atâtsiak taught me how to clean them. (Please no anti-hunting comments, this is my culture. Feel free to blacklist my hunting and animal death tags.)

Innu-aimun: Naikamᵘ - s/he cleans it Pineu - partridge Tshishkutamatsheu - s/he teaches Tshishkutamuakanu - s/he is taught Tshissenitamun - knowledge

Inuktitut: Salumajuk - clean AjuKittuk - teach Ilik / Ilinniak - learn AKiggik - partridge Atâtsiak - grandfather

[akumik]

I don’t think I made a post about this before but my url is the Inuktitut word “AKumik”, which means “Go with the wind”. 

[thesongofawinterwolf]

Kimmiga Nalligiviga!

[akumik]

Kimmiga Nalligiviga - I love my dog! (Inuktitut) Kimmik - Dog Nallinik / Nalligik - Love (Reblogging from my personal yet again, sorry for being a horrible langblr lol)

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“Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.”

— Emily O’Beirne

[thesongofawinterwolf]

I found a teeny baby porcupine! I didn’t bother him of course, I just took the photos and left. He was super brave! 💕 In Innu-aimun, the word for porcupine is kakᵘ (but because this one is under a year old, he would be called kakuss instead). In Inuktitut, the word for porcupine is ilâKutsik.

[thesongofawinterwolf]

Me: “God, I’m not fluent in Innu and I feel like I should be. I’m Innu and can’t even fluently speak the language? I’m a failure”

*Some time later*

My mom (who is Innu and wants to learn but really struggles with languages): “Little Wolf, this is Innu, right? What does it mean?”

Me: *translates*

Mom: “Wooow, you’re so good at that now! You would have made your family proud if they were around to hear you.”

*cries* Y'know, maybe I’m not doing so bad after all (:

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A Real Langauge...

how great it feels the power of an ancestor the power of an ingrained, spoken, truthful light the movement of a tongue the secretion of ever lasting life the way rain trickles down the cedar softening the bone and blood of our land nourishing the life of our children nurturing truth across time immemorial to trees we sit beneath how great it feels to sit with you our real language how great it feels  

A Real Language, Brandon Castle 2018  

[sociolinguo]

Canada's Inuit Fight To Save Their Endangered Languages

One way to save the endangered Inuit languages is to create a standard writing system and introduce it in schools. But organizations pushing for the shif...

[akumik]

Animals in Innu-aimun

amishkᵘ - Beaver atikᵘ - Caribou atim ᵘ - Dog atshikᵘ  - Seal innineu - Spruce grouse maikan - Wolf mashkᵘ - Black bear matsheshu - Fox mishtamekᵘ - Whale mishtapush - Arctic Hare missip - Eider Duck muakᵘ - Loon munaikutan - Puffin mush - Moose nishk - Goose pishu - Lynx uapakanu - Snowy owl uapamekᵘ - Beluga Whale uapashkᵘ - Polar bear uapineuat - White tailed ptarmigan  uapush - Snowshoe Hare uishkatshan - Grey jay

[akishoo]

““I am an Inuit seal meat eater, and my fur is ethical,” wrote Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, bundled in a sealskin coat, pants and boots. She also wrote a letter to DeGeneres and posted it online. Samsung vowed to donate $1 for every retweet of DeGeneres’ celebrity-packed Oscars selfie to a charity of her choice. She raised $1.5 million for the Humane Society of the United States, which campaigns annually against Canada’s seal hunt. The Ellen DeGeneres Show’s website calls the seal hunt “one of the most atrocious and inhumane acts against animals allowed by any government.” The Inuit have long defended the hunt as a sustainable practice, deeply rooted in Inuit culture, which helps feed people in a region plagued by hunger. “The meat feeds families, which is important to an area where many households have identified that they face issues of food insecurity,” said Sandi Vincent, who posted her own sealfie Thursday. The pelts also come in handy in the cold northern climate and provide a needed source of income, she said. She also countered the idea of the hunt as “inhumane.” “In Inuit culture, it is believed seals and other animals have souls and offer themselves to you. Humanely and with gratitude we accepted this gift,” she said, reminiscing about catching her first seal at age 15.”

— Inuit tweet ‘sealfies’ to protest Ellen’s Oscars selfie | Canada | News | Toronto Sun (via oswaldofguadalupe)

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Ute tau etaian, tshitapatamu utinniun

Apu tshissenitak tshipa tutamu

Ui uapatamu anite nikan

Mamitunenitamu tan tshipa tutamu

Ui uapatamu anite nikan

Ui tshissenitamu umeshkanam

  He is here with me looking at his life

He doesn’t know what he could do

He wants to see the future

He’s thinking about what he could do

He wants to see the future

He wants to know his path

  Thanks to my friend for the lyrics and the translation.

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