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Did you know ...

• in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron, Labrador, Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention?
• in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives?
• now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea?
• the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?
• in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
• a trading post was set up in Kangirsuk, Quebec, in 1921 but the Inuit did not settle there permanently until the 1960s?
• Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals?
• Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America?
• Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
• Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
• anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?