Interactive Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit

Mariam Agukuk (Singer on Homepage)

Miriam Aglukkaq is a great supporter of Inuit culture and language through Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. She resides in Gjoa Haven. She is best known for singing traditional inuit songs and drum dancing and at most times, singing for the drum dancer. Many years ago, when Inuit had a wonderful year, in which no one went hungry, Inuit used to build a big iglu to celebrate life and hold various types of Inuit festivities. One of the major activity was drum dancing. Miriam travels all over the world, promoting drum dancing and traditional Inuit songs. She sings the songs of Inuit of many years ago and helps to promote them and preserve them. Miriam sits on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Committee of the Government of Nuanvut, an organization that helps to establish IQ policies in the Government. Her daughter Leona is currently a cabinet member in the Government of Nuanvut.

Attima Hadlari (Drummer on Homepage)

Attima is an Inuit drum dancer who lives with his family in Cambridge Bay , Nunavut . He has been actively drumming since his early teen years and attributes his ability to his teachers, Hadlari, (his father) and Quaquqtuuq. Attima drums in the Natttilingmiut style accompanied by one or more chant singers. Over the years he has performed with his drum to audiences across the world, often explaining the significance and traditional uses of the chants and the dance. Other times Attima demonstrates such traditional skills as the use of the seal skin whip or Inuit games.

Attima was born out on the land between Taloyoak and Kugaaruk and raised in tents and igloos until his family moved into the settlement of Taloyoak when he was a teenager. He started hunting on his own, by dog team, at an early age. He is proud to say that if he had to, he could survive out on the tundra still today.


	Elder Bios Mariam Agukuk (Singer on Homepage) Miriam Aglukkaq is a great supporter of Inuit culture and language through Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. She resides in Gjoa Haven. She is best known for singing traditional inuit songs and drum dancing and at most times, singing for the drum dancer. Many years ago, when Inuit had a wonderful year, in which no one went hungry, Inuit used to build a big iglu to celebrate life and hold various types of Inuit festivities. One of the major activity was drum dancing. Miriam travels all over the world, promoting drum dancing and traditional Inuit songs. She sings the songs of Inuit of many years ago and helps to promote them and preserve them. Miriam sits on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Committee of the Government of Nuanvut, an organization that helps to establish IQ policies in the Government. Her daughter Leona is currently a cabinet member in the Government of Nuanvut. Attima Hadlari (Drummer on Homepage) Attima is an Inuit drum dancer who lives with his family in Cambridge Bay , Nunavut . He has been actively drumming since his early teen years and attributes his ability to his teachers, Hadlari, (his father) and Quaquqtuuq. Attima drums in the Natttilingmiut style accompanied by one or more chant singers. Over the years he has performed with his drum to audiences across the world, often explaining the significance and traditional uses of the chants and the dance. Other times Attima demonstrates such traditional skills as the use of the seal skin whip or Inuit games. Attima was born out on the land between Taloyoak and Kugaaruk and raised in tents and igloos until his family moved into the settlement of Taloyoak when he was a teenager. He started hunting on his own, by dog team, at an early age. He is proud to say that if he had to, he could survive out on the tundra still today.