Nick Sikkuark
Nick Sikkuark (21 May 1943 – 19 December 2013) was an Inuit artist from Kugaaruk, Nunavut. The broad range of his work, its technical ability and imagination makes it almost unique in terms of its culture. Life Born at Garry Lake, Nunavut (then part of the District of Keewatin, Keewatin), Sikkuark was orphaned at a young age. He was then taken in by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Oblate Fathers. As a young man he studied for the clergy in Winnipeg and Ottawa before settling in Kugaaruk, Nunavut, then called Pelly Bay. It was in 1976, after travelling to Montreal for the Olympics that he began to work as an artist full-time, making carvings that drew upon his imagination or reflected his dreams. In 2001 or 2002, because of his lungs, he began to draw and paint. His drawings and paintings were also of spirits and legends. Work His works are mainly in whale bone, caribou antler, and walrus ivory, and are characterized by "droll, macabre wit." In 2023, the National Galle ...
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Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate used in Nunavut. Inuit live throughout most of Northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut, Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut in Labrador, and in various parts of the Northwest Territories, particularly around the Arctic Ocean, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. With the exception of NunatuKavut, these areas are known, primarily by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, as Inuit Nunangat. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians wh ...
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