Children's Nonfiction Beginner
The Arctic Sky: Inuit Wayfinding
Inuktitut Edition
- Publisher
- Inhabit Education Books Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2021
- Category
- Beginner, Native Canadian, Polar Regions
- Recommended Age
- 10 to 11
- Recommended Grade
- 5 to 6
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774500835
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $16.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774500828
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Before maps, compasses, and GPS, Inuit used observation and experience to find their way in the Arctic. This book describes some of the traditional methods Inuit traditionally used to navigate on the land and sea, including using the sun and stars and looking carefully at snowdrifts. Quotations from Elders preserve this knowledge for future generations.
About the author
John MacDonald spent most of his working life in the Canadian Arctic, including twenty-five years as co-ordinator of the Igloolik Research Centre in Igloolik, Nunavut, where he worked closely with Inuit elders participating in the community’s oral history project. He is the author of The Arctic Sky and co-editor of The Hands’ Measure (Nunavut Arctic College Media), a work highlighting the urgency of recording and documenting Indigenous oral histories and traditional knowledge.