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Tuhaalruuqtut, Ancestral Sounds
Inuit Heritage Centre
Baker Lake , Nunavut

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also included.
   While the songs, legends
and oral historical accounts
of local Inuit of Baker Lake
are, at times, told in the
traditional voice of the
Inuit of yesteryears, this
Community Memories Exhibit is
an opportunity for those who
speak English or Inuktitut

who use today's vernacular to
understand the struggle and
the achievements of
traditional Inuit life.

   Acknowledgements:
   The songs where
transcribed into Inuktitut
syllabics and Roman
Orthography and translated
into English by Sarah Silou,
Inuit Heritage Centre.
   Sheena Iksiraq, 2005
summer student of Canada
Youths helped in translation

and research.
   Tuhaalruuqtut Ancestral
Sounds was translated into
French by Louis-Jacques
Dorais, Virginie Gilbert and
Frederic Laugrand of Laval
University.
   Tania Marsh was
instrumental in obtaining
funding from Canadian

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