Bios – Peter Irniq
Peter Irniq, born in 1947, is an Inuit cultural teacher and has lived most of his life in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, including Repulse Bay, Coral Harbor, Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Rankin Inlet and Iqaluit. […]
Peter Irniq, born in 1947, is an Inuit cultural teacher and has lived most of his life in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, including Repulse Bay, Coral Harbor, Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Rankin Inlet and Iqaluit. […]
Chicago, Illinois USA, Age 32 John is a wilderness and arctic expeditioner, experiential educator, writer, world traveler, cross-country ski racer and fledgling historian. A graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, he worked as a wilderness expedition instructor
Bob O’Hara was a guest speaker at the 2009 IAS Annual Meeting. Bob is a retired secondary school educator in biology and coach. He is still quite active as an athletic official for swimming, track and
A documentary of the “Northern Games at the Olympic Games” exhibition at Canada’s Northern House Pavilion during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. It’s a narrated tour of the exhibit with Loren Balshine. Part
Although Phil, a Michigan native, technically retired when he sold his chain of 64 HomeTown Communications newspapers in 2005, he is still vice chair of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC), chair of the state chapter
The Necessities of Life, a 2008 film directed by Benoît Pilon, tells the story of an Inuit hunter with tuberculosis who goes to a sanatorium in Quebec City. The film was acclaimed by critics and received
Keynote Speaker, IAS 2009 Annual Meeting Just a quick glance over these selections from Sheila’s CV tells you that she has a wealth of experience and knowledge about Greenland’s Inuit and their various art forms. Her
Exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum “Our Land is not about museums, governments, agencies, offices, or curators. It is about Inuit artists and their work.” – exhibition catalogue The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
John Houston was born in 1954 and spent the first eight years of his life in the Canadian Arctic at Cape Dorset, on Baffin Island. At the age of five, John began translating at the nursing