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posted by Eklek 1 decade 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 8,478 viewsIndigenous Peoples of the World Unite!
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Indigenous peoples are any ethnic group who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection. These are videos of Indigenous peoples from around the world.
An absolutely beautiful song by Quebec Inuit singer Elisapie Isaac.
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 4 years 9 months ago • 1,276 viewsAn interesting documentary on an interesting man, and his quest to have Inuit recognized and legally defined in Canadian law.
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,270 viewsA nice love song. Inuit music continues to dominate videosift!
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 4 years 11 months ago • 1,165 viewsTanya Tagak is one of the most recognized Inuit musicians in the world. Here she is singing in Ottawa, Canada at Winterlude.
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 951 viewsJesse Frankson - an Alaskan Inuit (Eskimo) holds the world record for the One-Foot High Kick. He beat Micheal Blanks, Billy Blanks younger brother, to achieve the world record height of 9 feet 8 inches. ... continue reading
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 6 years 3 weeks ago • 4,397 viewsNecessities of life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) is a film that takes place in 1952 and follows an Inuit Hunter from Baffin Island who is diagnosed with Tuberculosis and is shipped down to a sanatorium in... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 12 months ago • 1,403 viewsNunavummiut (people from Nunavut) face some of the most desperate poverty in North America. The suicide rate among young Inuit men is 11 times Canada's national average. Our culture and language (Inuktitut)... continue reading
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,817 viewsA film from 1949 featuring an Eskimo family from Alaska. (Canadian Inuit prefer to be called 'Inuit' - Alaskan Inuit prefer being called 'Eskimos'). My father was born in 1950, and grew up in a way... continue reading
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 3,300 viewsA animation done in sand from 1974 by the National Film Board of Canada. The NFB description "In this Inuit legend it is plausible enough that a goose should capture the fancy of an owl and that the... continue reading
posted by Lumm 1 decade 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 3,277 viewsA scene from the terrible, terrible Canadian TV show "Due South". Some RCMP tool tells geriatric Americans - who are afraid of pimps, junkies, and thieves in their urban hellhole of a city - about his... continue reading
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,154 viewsyou're probably familiar with Tuuvan throat singing. this is different.
posted by sometimes 1 decade 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,316 viewsNot for week tummies, however they look happier then most people who sit down together for a meal.
posted by Gratefulmom 1 decade 5 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 2,343 viewsCBC News piece about Inuit performers from the unique Igloolik, Nunavut-based circus troupe Artcirq who traveled to Timbuktu, Mali in January, 2008 to take part in the Festival in the Desert. Artcirq... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 11 months ago • 1,075 viewsWade Davis, author of The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, contrasts Western perception of the Inuit as "savages" with the endless inventiveness he sees in their way of life.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 4,425 views • 4:51An excerpt from "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen" - a film about the transformation of Inuit spiritual beliefs from Shamanism to Christianity, and one Shamans struggle with the changes taking place in Inuit society. ... continue reading
posted by Throbbin 1 decade 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,889 views • 14:27thousands of indigenous people gather for a ritual that involves fighting until blood is spilt on the ground. The blood is thought to guarantee a good harvest.
posted by peggedbea 1 decade 5 years 4 months ago • 920 viewsI wanted to find something about the Piraha language, a language that can be sung, whistled and includes rasberry noises. It has no numbers higher than two, the only time (tense?) is the present, and it... continue reading
posted by lavoll 1 decade 5 years 11 months ago • 9,908 viewsA gifted Aboriginal singer who was born blind and brought up in poverty has taken Australia by storm, topping the mainstream music charts and earning plaudits for his "sublime" voice. Geoffrey Gurrumul... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 4 months ago • 59,053 viewsCRACKED.com: Are you the sort of person who likes to think of yourself as tough? A "badass," perhaps? "Hard," as they say? Some of the indigenous peoples of the area use Bullet Ants as part of this... continue reading
posted by K0MMIE 1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 7,983 views