Canada History Week 2020: Environmental History Learning Tool

HOW CHANGING SEA ICE IS ALSO CHANGING LIVES IN THE NORTH

Inuit hunters and scientists are collaborating to record recent alarming shifts in Hudson Bay sea ice.

Peter Kattuk (left) and Daniel Qavvik on the lookout for belugas trapped in a polynya near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. Photo: Joel Heath/Arctic Elder Society.

INUIT NUNANGAT TAIMANNGANIT

This project tells the story of Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland in Canada) from time immemorial (taimannganit). It offers personal accounts of Inuit connections to the land and sea, as well as their legends, histories, and relationship with the environment and all living things within it.

Qiqiqtaakuluit - David Aqqiaruq, courtesy of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

GROWING THEIR OWN

Tobacco in Alberta? The nomadic Blackfoot people cultivated it in this unlikely place long before European contact. Learn more about this history, including the surprising role that the beaver played.

Two Blackfoot, Sun Calf (left, with tobacco pipe) and Jack Sun Calf, circa 1920. Photo courtesy of Glenbow Archives and Canada’s History.

Northern Lights over Lake Laberge, Yukon Territory (Stephan Pietzko/17149387/Dreamstime).

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