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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
Girl Of The

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Old Inuit Song
I think over again my small adventures,
... My fears,
Those small ones that seemed so big.
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing,
The only thing.
To live to see ... the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.

  • Edited version of an anonymous Eskimo song, published in Edmund Carpenter's book of Inuit songs, Anerca (1959). Original translation attributed to Tegoodligakat and Knud Rasmussen's Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, Vol 9 (1921-1924).
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merlebardenoir@diaspora-fr.org
Merle Bardenoir

En ce jour de forte chaleur, je vous propose de vous rafraîchir avec la découverte de quelques mots intuits rassemblés par Jørn Riel. Cette plongée dans le vocabulaire de la peuplade la plus connue du Grand Nord vous permettra d'entrevoir certains traits caractéristiques de leur culture. #Folklore, chasse et #chamanisme sont au rendez-vous. En revanche, je ne saurai vous aider concernant la prononciation !

#lexique #inuit #eskimo

Lexique inuit de Jørn Riel

À la fin de Heq, roman s’appuyant sur ses recherches ethnologiques dans le Grand Nord, l’écrivain Jørn Riel ajoute un lexique pour aider le lecteur à se repérer dans ce paysage plus blanc que page.…

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
Sylvia J

‘Ice has a memory’ ~ an Inuit poem contemplates scientific exploration of Greenland

https://vimeo.com/539368995

' #Greenland is the #world’s #largest #island, a #sprawling #landmass covered by a notoriously #receding #ice #sheet. With a population of just 56,000, it’s also one of the #least #populated places on #Earth. The vast majority of these #Greenlanders are #Greenlandic #Inuit, with roots on the island stretching back centuries. Recent decades, however, have brought a new kind a visitor – #climate #scientists with #complex #devices for #drilling and #prodding the Earth. Setting up #temporary #camps that tend to leave #permanent #marks, they aim to peer into the deep past #preserved in the #ice, hoping that it will offer hints about the climate’s precarious #future.

An #impressionistic work of #nonfiction with #science-fiction influences, #Utuqaq (‘ice that lasts year after year’) juxtaposes images of a #scientific #expedition to Greenland’s ice sheet with a #poem about the visitors, narrated in #Kalaallisut, a variant of Greenlandic Inuit language, by #AviajaLyberth. As the filmmaker #IvaRadivojevic’s #otherworldly and often #beautiful #exploration unfolds, two distinct perspectives on the #stark #white #landscape slowly emerge. #climatechange #short #documentary #stunning #poetic #arctic #film

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