This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum development, and academic research. The contributors expand, create, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production, discussion, and writing of Indigenous art histories. Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based, embodied, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sami homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic -- from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sapmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sami rematriation and the revival of the ladjogahpir (a Sami woman's headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond. Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social wellbeing, and cultural identity.

Winner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in EducationShortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book AwardNunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work. Artists from the territory have traditionally used stone and woods for carving; fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of contemporary art media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and ceramics, while also working with traditional materials in new and unexpected ways. SakKijAcjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut is the first major publication on the art of the Labrador Inuit. Designed to accompany a major touring exhibition organized by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of St. John's, the book features more than 80 reproductions of work by 45 different artists, profiles of the featured artists, and a major essay on the art of Nunatsiavut by Heather Igloliorte. SakKijAcjuk -- "to be visible" in the Nunatsiavut dialect of Inuktitut -- provides an opportunity for readers, collectors, art historians, and art aficionados from the South and the North to come into intimate contact with the distinctive, innovative, and always breathtaking work of the contemporary Inuit artists and craftspeople of Nunatsiavut.

This description is for the Inuktitut edition. Nunatsiavut, tanna Inuit nunakKatigengituk Canada-mit pitalauttut namminik kavamamik 2005-imi, sanaKattajut sananguatausimajunik adjiKangitunik nunatsualimamit Canadamiungutlutik ammalu ukkiuttatop KikKanganettuk Inuit sananguataumajut. Silatsualimami siKinganeluattuk inigijautluni Inutuinnanut, tamakkua satjugiamit inuit Nunatsiavummi iniKainnatut napattop killingani, ammalu Inuit allanguattingit ammalu sananguatingit Nunatsiavummit pitasongunginnatut adjigengitunik ukiuttattumi ammalu ukiuttattoKattangimmijuk pigutsianginnik, taikkunangat atuKattasimajut takuminattunik sanagalagiamik suliagijanginnit. Allanguattet nunanganit piusituKanginnit atuKattasimavut ukkusitsajannik ammalu Kijunik sananguagiamut; amilinnik, tuttujannik, ammalu Kisinik atuttausonik sanaKattajut; ammalu tagiulinnit ivinik sanaKattamijut, ammalugiallak allasajannik, kikiatsajak, Kallunattajak, sapangak, ammalu alakkasajannik. MannaKammik, sanagalasimavut sanajaunginnatunik takugatsausongutlutik, ilautillugit minguattausimajut, allanguattausimajut, nenittausimajut, adjiliuttausimajut, taggajaliuttausimajut, ammalu maggalinnit, atautsikut atutlutik piusituKannik atunginnatamminik nutangutlutik ammalu nigiugijausimangitunut piusitKatlutik. SakKijajuk: Allanguattausimajut ammalu sananguatausimajut Nunatsiavummit sivulligijauvuk angijotluni nuititausimajuk allanguattausimajunit Labrador Inunginnit. Sanajauluasimajuk angijummagimmik apvitattitaulluni takugatsauniattilugit akKisuttausimajuk taikkununga taijaujunut The Rooms Pravinsikkut Allanguattausimajunik Takujapvinganut St. John's-imit, atuagak pitaKalangavuk ungatani 80-nik sanajaugesimajunut 45-init adjigengitunit sananguatinut, kinakkoningit iluanemmijut sananguatet, ammalu angijummagik allataumajuk sananguatet pitjutigillugit Nunatsiavummit allasimajuk Heather Igloliorte. SakKijajuk pivitsaKattisijuk atuatsiKattajunut, katitsuiKattajunut, allanguattinut piusituKaujunut, ammalu katitsuiKattajunut sunatuinnanik sananguatausimajunit siKinittini ammalu taggatinni takujagiattulakKut taikkununga adjiKangitunut, sanajautsiasimajunut, ammalu takuminattusiavannik suliagijausimajunut Inuit sananguatinginnut ammalu allanguattinginnut Nunatsiavummit.

This description is for the French edition. Le Nunatsiavut, region inuite du Canada qui possede une administration autonome depuis 2005, a une production artistique a part dans le monde de l'art canadien et de l'art inuit circumpolaire. Population inuite la plus meridionale au monde, le peuple cotier du Nunatsiavut a toujours vecu a cheval sur la limite forestiere, et les artistes et artisans inuits du Nunatsiavut ont eu acces a une flore et une faune arctique et subarctique tres diversifiees, a partir desquelles ils ont cree des uvres d'une surprenante variete. Les artistes du territoire se sont traditionnellement servis de la pierre et du bois pour sculpter, de la fourrure, du cuir et de la peau de phoque pour l'art mobilier et des graminees marines pour la vannerie, ainsi que de la laine, du metal, du tissu, des perles et du papier. Plus recemment, ils ont travaille avec des techniques que l'on retrouve en art contemporain, comme la peinture, le dessin, la gravure, la photographie, la video et la ceramique, sans pour autant delaisser les materiaux traditionnels, utilises de maniere novatrice et inusitee. SakKijajuk. Art et artisanat du Nunatsiavut est la premiere publication d'importance sur l'art des Inuits du Labrador. Ecrit pour accompagner une exposition itinerante majeure concue par The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery Division de St. John's, l'ouvrage comprend plus de 80 reproductions d'uvres de 45 artistes, une presentation de ces derniers et un essai de fond sur l'art au Nunatsiavut signe par la commissaire Heather Igloliorte. SakKijajuk "etre visible" - prendre sa place-dans le dialecte inuktitut du Nunatsiavut) constitue une occasion unique pour les lecteurs, collectionneurs, historiens de l'art et amateurs d'art du Sud comme du Nord de creer une relation particuliere avec le travail different, novateur et toujours saisissant des artistes et artisans inuits contemporains du Nunatsiavut.