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  2. Angakkuq - Wikipedia

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    Ikpukhuak and his angatkuq wife, Higalik (Ice House), between 1913 and 1916 Angakkuq as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 edition. The Inuit angakkuq (plural: angakkuit, Inuktitut syllabics ᐊᖓᑦᑯᖅ or ᐊᖓᒃᑯᖅ; [1] [2] [3] Inuvialuktun: angatkuq; [4] Greenlandic: angakkoq, [5] pl. angakkut; [6] Iñupiaq: aŋatkuq) is an intellectual and spiritual figure in Inuit ...

  3. Uvavnuk - Wikipedia

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    Uvavnuk was an Inuk woman born in the 19th century, now considered an oral poet. The story of how she became an angakkuq (spiritual healer), and the song that came to her, were collected by European explorers of Arctic Canada in the early 1920s. Her shamanistic poem-song, best known as "Earth and the Great Weather", has been anthologised many ...

  4. Inuit religion - Wikipedia

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    Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Alaska Native religions. Traditional Inuit religious practices include animism and shamanism, in which spiritual healers mediate with ...

  5. Shamanism - Wikipedia

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    Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination , or to aid human beings in some other way.

  6. Inuit women - Wikipedia

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    Inuit women tend to go to school more than Inuit men, and this is especially true of college. Some universities in regions where the Inuit are prominent, such as the Nunavut Arctic College, have programs designed specifically for the Inuit. Women, much more often than men, take advantage of these programs. [41]

  7. Malaya Akulukjuk - Wikipedia

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    Malaya Akulukjuk was an Inuk artist who drew works inspired by her life as an angakkuq (shaman) and Inuit spirituality through depictions of human-animal transformations. . Akulukjuk was born in 1915 (though some sources state 1912 and 1921), and lived a traditional Inuit life in a camp at Qikiqtat, Northwest Territories, (now Nunavut) before moving to Pangnirtung on Baffin Island in 19

  8. Tuluŋigraq - Wikipedia

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    (cf. the god Tulugaak of the eastern Eskimo) When the world was in perpetual darkness of night, he stole the skin-wrapped sun, and with his beak released it from the skin: it flew upward, creating daylight. [3] By wrestling her, Tuluŋigraq had acquired [4] as wife an uiḷuaqtaq, a 'woman who had refused to marry'.

  9. Victoria Mamnguqsualuk - Wikipedia

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    Eight of her prints were part of the first print edition from Baker Lake, in 1970, and her pieces have appeared in many collections since then. Her work is informed by some of the stylistic tropes of European art. In her painting Shaman Caribou, Mamnguqsualuk has created a complex composition that illustrates many aspects of the Inuit Shaman's ...