Research Catalog

Title

Atiqput : Inuit oral history and Project Naming / edited by Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, and Christina Williamson.

Publication

• Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Payne, Carol J.
• Greenhorn, Beth
• Webster, Deborah Kigjugalik
• Williamson, Christina

Description

xvii, 243 pages : illustrations; 27cm

Summary

"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life. - Piita Irniq For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming's methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization."--

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's indigenous and northern studies ; 103

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's indigenous and northern series ; 103.

Subject

• Library and Archives Canada > Photograph collections
• Library and Archives Canada
• Names, Inuit
• Names, Personal > Social aspects > Canada, Northern
• Inuit > Portraits
• Inuit > History
• Inuit > Social life and customs
• Inuit > Biography
• Inuit
• Inuit > Social life and customs
• Names, Inuit
• Names, Personal > Social aspects
• Photograph collections
• Northern Canada

Genre/Form

• photobooks.
• Photobooks
• Biographies
• History
• Portraits
• Photobooks.
• Livres de photographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Foreword / Jimmy Manning -- Introduction / Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, and Christina Williamson -- PART ONE | PROJECT NAMING: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE -- Introduction / Carol Payne and Alexandra Haggert -- 1 Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the origins of Project Naming: A school perspective / Morley Hanson and Murray Angus -- 2 Two graduates look back at Nunavut Sivuniksavut and Project Naming / Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt and Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt -- 3 The story behind Project Naming at Library and Archives Canada / Beth Greenhorn -- 4 Pictorial Essay I / Barry Pottle in conversation with Heather Igloliorte -- PART TWO | ATIQPUT: INUIT ELDERS SPEAK ABOUT NAMING -- Introduction / Christina Williamson and Deborah Kigjugalik Webster -- 5 "There was my mother!" / Sally Kate Webster -- 6 "Sometimes when you see the pictures, you come home" / Piita Irniq -- 7 "I'm responsible for that name. If I lose that, I've cut off an Inuit encyclopedia" / Manitok Thompson -- 8 "A story about names" / Ann Meekitjuk Hanson -- 9 "I have many names" / David Serkoak -- 10 Pictorial Essay II: Naming / asinnajaq -- PART THREE | EXTENDING PROJECT NAMING -- Introduction / Carol Payne -- 11 Naming names: Image captions of Inuit RCMP special constables / Deborah Kigjugalik Webster -- 12 Picture this: Self-esteem, Project Naming, and the Nanisiniq/Nanivara History Projects / Frank Tester and Curtis Kuunuaq Konek -- 13 Views from the North: Photographs, generations, and Inuit cultural memory / Carol Payne and Sheena Ellison -- 14 Looking for Kenojuak / Sandra Dyck.

ISBN

• 9780228011057
• 0228011051
• 9780228013358
• 0228013356

LCCN

2022360299

OCLC

• on1280602315
• 1280602315
• SCSB-14316919

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library