"My Father Was Told to Talk to the Environment First Before Anything Else" - Arctic Environmental Education in the Language of the Land

Abstract

Chapter examines the importance of Indigenous languages and the connection between ecology and language, focusing on the Nunavut Territory where “the land speaks Inuktitut” . The chapter was constructed from conversations and e-mails between Inuk writer and researcher Tommy Akulukjuk, and independent researcher Derek Rasmussen, who lived in Nunavut for 12 years