Promo video for the Ulukhaktok Western Drummers and Dancers. Shot in and around Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, September 2012. Produced and directed by Tony Devlin for the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and Black Fly Studios.
@@dn2ze Uh, stop lying. Canada genocided their indigenous population _just like America did._ AND afterwards, y'all treated the indigenous people worse than America did. It is _by no means_ alive and well.
Qu Wha Tsi! My Dear Native Brothers and Sisters, I am from The Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, and I just want to let you know how wonderful you are for keeping your culture of music and dances alive.. It is so very important also that you stay sober and clean, free from drugs and alcohol so that you remain strong and pure for the next generations. My prayers for you are that The Great and Mighty ABBA Father YaHu WaH protect you and keep you close to His Heart today and Forever...Please stay Strong in Him because He loves you...
This, the drum-dancing, the inuit culture, this is going to outlive us long after our generation has passed on! This is my wish and I'm proud of it! :)
Wow so great.. Inuit dancers beat the drum from underneath.. each displaying syle unto own yet .. concerns remain the same .. loss of traditonal dance drumming, dress, elders, community.Thanks for sharing and have this too look for next generation to pass on to as well as traditional teaching of ancetors and opportunity for me to see since so far south in Ontario
It's a shame how all this was almost extermined. Imagine how all these cultures could have emerged, how nations could have evolved, languages, ideas, social structures. As a south american, I always have this on my mind, what America could have brought to the world just as Europe, Asia and Africa did.
Marcos Alexander Mora Lizcano Canada kept the Treaties with indigenous people, Same Treaties Americans broke, plus we have laws and Treaty Rights protecting and preserve our cultures and languages. Plus it even protects it from wannabes and cultures vultures. That’s why you never see any blacks claiming to be Native in Canada. Plus we have mixed Natives too but they are their own people with their own culture and language mixture of Native and European Mixed together.
@@dn2ze Uh, Canada treated it's indigenous people a MILLION times worse than America did. Remember when your government put Eskimo children in boarding schools (they were forcibly taken from their parents) where they suffered sexual, emotional, physical, verbal and mental abuse? Remember when y'all couldn't pronounce our names, so y'all gave us numbers? I can go on..... I think It's disgusting that Canada acts like it's better than America in any way, shape, or form.
@@EG-ne7yp They were the cradle of humanity, and once were a part of the epicenter of scientific research. In addition, I think you are forgetting about the dozens and dozens of ethnic groups and cultures.
@@woohooo7634 Hello! "Y'all." Who are you even talking about? Im Russian and neither I nor my country has anything to do with the things you describe. Jesus. Take a brake and relax a bit =)
Nice work Peggy Jay! Glad to see you're still working with the Inuvialuit. I remember you from when you coordinated the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Inuvik in1992.
They would be called "drums". In Inuvialuktun I _think_ it's called a "kilaut", (hey, it's been 38 years since I lived there) but that word may be more for the larger Central and Eastern Arctic drums, which are struck on the frame with a short thick stick. These have longer, thinner sticks that hit the skin, the frame, or both at the same time. Definitely not whale skin. Maybe scraped caribou skin or something modern. I have seen one made with a piece of raincoat.
@@daveshen0880 the tradition started with the Mongolians when they moved up throughout Nunavut to Greenland, it sort of died off. The Inuit in the west practice both the drumming and the dancing but as you move east all the way to Greenland, there isn’t the same emphasis on the dancing part and just playing the drum. This only happened because as our people moved further along, many of the Inuit back then moving lost the dancing part. Then it didn’t help with the whole colonization thing for the Inuit in the east much either.
HM got me thinking:) why all those cultures like eskimo, no offence meant, mongolian and so have that nice rhtymical songs, in my country almost all of the songs are more about vocals and text. I mean songs considered folk and native to my land
Heyah? That's an ancient Hebrew word for God Almighty. Weyah means he who flows living water another reference to God. Could these people be israelites?
Please shut the fuck up, I'm Indigenous and I hate seeing crackpot conspiracy theorists trying to link random cultures thousands of miles away from israel to israelites
sometimes I am quite jealous of people who have a connection to the land they live on and who have a distinct culture. Its so beautiful and each culture is so unique. I'm a white person in the U.S with mixed european background and I have no culture I can proudly celebrate and call mine. (also I hate that i live on stolen land and I hate that my family's success is a product of genocide)
Rebecca sikes I'm ashamed that you'd say that just because you're white makes you sound ashamed that you are white. Europeans also have their own traditions and culture. I am scottish and sweedish and I'm white. Every culture has been a slave at one time or another. The Romans claimed that the celts were barbarians because of their language and these people were white. The English didn't like their bag pipes and were told that they couldn't use swords to defend themselves so they used what was around them. The celtic culture has a very STRONG ORAL TRADITION they didn't write down things because it was against their beliefs. They also had a writing system of their own called Ogham. The celts were also connected to nature and were spiritual people themselves. You can find the good or the bad in anything and people themselves..it's what you choose to believe. It's good to remember what our ancestors did before us the good along with the bad. If you start re writing history because you are ashamed of it then you are doomed to make the same mistakes as our ancestors did. I bet if you looked at your own unique heritage you could find some wonderful and rich things about your own heritage.
@@kimholcomb6943 hey homie, I’m Irish and czech, but removed from those traditions because of my position in America and the amount of time my relatives have been in America. Also, I’m three years into a History major so like...I know that very basic history you relayed. Emphasis on basic, there is a lack of nuance in your words. Modern American socio-cultural context is what I am discussing, not the history of European oppression or the various ethnic divisions of that peninsula :)
matthew mann Eskimo means raw meat eaters most find it offensive nowadays they prefer Inuit which means people. Plus Inuits and Natives don’t see each other as same people and race but two different people and race. I wish Americans would just stop comparing Natives with Inuits.
@@dn2ze Inuit is already plural, no need for an S at the end. And we are separated by Inuit, First Nations and Metis. All native, but not genetically the same. (Although Metis come from First Nations/French origin)
Not all Europeans were bad people. We made mistakes but so did other races. I'm not proud of the bad things that they did and I remember it. But I also embrace the good things that my heritage has given to others. Quit focusing on the bad but remember it and don't repeat it embrace the good along with the bad and you'll find that there are things that are amazing in your own heritage and culture. 😄
@@dn2ze sharing is a good thing but Don chastise someone who dosen't know. Teach and lead with empathy and wisdom. This will go along way rather than than jumping down someone's throat.
No they do not. The men's parkas don't have those rectangles on the chest, and the fur around the hood is just wolverine. The women's hoods have wolverine plus the "amarok" or wolf fur sunburst fringe around the wolverine.
That’s funny cause the Catholics thought the same thing, and they came up with residential schools. We all know how that went lol. You’re not trying to bring back those schools are you?
