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L O W L A N D S - L - 19 May 2010 - Volume 02<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Resources<br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Although it is not (yet) directly relevant to our Lowlands focus, I would like
to draw your attention to what I think is an online resource that I like a
great deal:<br>
<br>
Isuma TV<br>
<a href="http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en">http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en</a><br>
<br>
It comes in Inuktitut (in Canadian Syllabary and in Roman script), English,
French and Spanish.<br>
<br>
Its focus is on Inuit studies and news, but it offers material about other
“Indigenous” peoples as well. Under “Speaking Indigenous Languages” there are
videos in or about 40 “Indigenous” languages. (The reason why I use quotation
marks is because Ladino (Judeo-Castilian) is included.)<br>
<br>
Isuma TV is a rich resource for anyone interested in
“Indigenous” cultures, languages, histories and current affairs. It offers a
wealth of audio and video files as well as photographs and articles. I like the
concept very much and can imagine it being applied to other topic areas,
including ours.<br>
<br>
This being a subsidized Canadian production, there is a clear emphasis on Canada’s First
Nations, in particular on Inuit communities. However, there is information
about other American communities as well, also about Siberian (Khanty) and European (Sámi) ones (besides the mentioned Ladino - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/ladino-info.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/ladino-info.php</a>).<br>
<br>
The cherry on top consists of the availability of the “Fast Runner Trilogy" (<a href="http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en/fastrunnertrilogy">http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en/fastrunnertrilogy</a>),
three excellent, prize-winning Inuktitut movies: <i>Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner</i>
(2001), <i>The Journals of Knud Rasmussen</i> (2006), and <i>Le jour avant le
lendemain</i> (Before Tomorrow, 2008, adapted from the novel <i>For morgendaggen</i>
by Jørn Riel).<br>
<br>
These movies were produced in Canada’s
newest self-governing territory: Nunavut
(whose official languages are Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English and French). This,
in conjunction with the high quality of some of the posted Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)
videos, seems to point into the direction the possibility that regained political self-determination
can enhance the survival chances of languages.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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