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"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our
identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in
the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts.
Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes,
every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names
have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings
forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who
became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..."
With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the
pictures, back to life." Piita Irniq For over two decades, Inuit
collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have
returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in
historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part
of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research
initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut
and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices
and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling.
Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita
Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak,
form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions
and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic
archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and
research projects that extend Project Naming's methodology,
interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and
the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography,
Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies
and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.
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